Figurative Language in The Christmas Carol

Identify the type of figurative language:

The chain was long and wound about him like a tail.

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Simile

Identify the type of figurative language:

The setting sun had left a streak of fiery red, which glared upon the desolation for an instant

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Simile

Identify the type of figurative language:

The elder man struck up a study song that was like a gale in itself.

• Allusion

• Personification

• Simile

Identify the type of figurative language:

A poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every 25th of December

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Personification

Identify the type of figurative language:

If he wanted to keep them, the wicked old screw, why didn't he?

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Simile

Identify the type of figurative language:

the chimes of the clock struck the fourth hour...

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

Identify the type of figurative language:

The spectre's voice disturbed the very marrow of his bones.

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Metaphor

Identify the type of figurative language:

Every idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding ...

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

Identify the type of figurative language:

The knife was eaten up with rust.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Idiom

Identify the type of figurative language:

If good Saint Dunston had but nipped the Evil Spirits nose with a touch ...

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Allusion