Christmas carol

• “a squeezing,wrenching,grasping,scraping,clutching covetous old sinner” 


  context: Victorian concepts of charity and philanthropy.

  decripotion of Scrooge intro to his life

  asyendic listing
• “Heat and cold had very little influence on scrooge” stave 1 


  Metaphor

  ideas of social responsibility
• “like a child, yet…like an old man” stave 2 


  Decription of ghost of christmas past

  shows that ghost has characteristics of youth and old age

  oxymoron paradox
• “I made it link by link and yard by yard” stave 1


  Shows Marley ghost is explaining to Scrooge about the chain he wears

  its a metaphor and shows repition
• ”I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel” Stave 5


  Simile
• “Scrooge was better than his words” stave 5


  Authorial intrusion- telling the reader what to think
• “I’ll raise your salary and endeavour to assist your struggling family“ stave 5


  Contrasting dialogue

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  emotive language