Figurative Language in A Christmas Carol

"Old Marley was as dead as a doornail."

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• personification

"If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night. . . "

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• allusion

"Hard and sharp as flint."

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

". . . the houses opposite were mere phantoms."

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

"The ancient tower of a church, whose gruff old bell was always peeping slily down at Scrooge out of a gothic window in the wall . . ."

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

• allusion

"Piercing, searching, biting cold."

• allusion

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• personification

"If the good Saint Dunstan had but nipped the Evil Spirit's nose with a touch of such weather as that. . . then indeed he would have roared to lusty purpose."

• allusion

• personification

• alliteration

• metaphor

". . . and yet that face of Marley, seven years dead, came like the ancient Prophet's rod, and swallowed up the whole."

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• allusion

'Upon its coming in, the dying flame leapt up, as though it cried, "I know him! Marley's ghost!" and fell again.'

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

"All these boys were in great spirits, and shouted to each other, until the broad fields were so full of merry music, that the crisp air laughed to hear it."

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• personification