A Christmas Carol quotes

“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased”

Ghost of Christmas yet to come

Symbolism

Metaphor

Alliteration

“He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father”

Narrator

Hyperbole

Metaphor

Emotive language

"A merrier Christmas, Bob, than I have given you, for many a year! I'll raise your salary and endeavour to assist your struggling family”

Scrooge

Contrast

Hyperbole

Emotive language

“Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster

Narrator

Imagery

Metaphor

Alliteration

Sibilance

“The happiness he gives it is quite as great as it cost a fortune”

Scrooge

Antithesis

Hyperbole

“I wear the chain I forged in life,” replied the Ghost. “I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it”

Jacob Marley

Metaphor

Repitition

Imagery

"Ali Baba! ... at the Gate of Damascus ...

Robinson Crusoe"

Scrooge

Parallelism

"Spirit," said Scrooge, with an interest he had never felt before,"tell me if Tiny Tim will live."

Scrooge

Emotive language

Imperative

“father is so much kinder than he used to be, that homes like heaven”

Fan

Simile

Hyperbole

Alliteration

Christian terminology

“If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population”

Scrooge

Irony

Hyperbole

Antithesis

Dehumanisation

“Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh ... His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him”

Narrator

Irony

Personification