What is a simile in Stave One of A Christmas Carol?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

In Stave One of A Christmas Carol, a simile is used to describe Ebenezer Scrooge's cold, solitary existence when he is compared to a "screw" in a phrase that reads, "Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!"

Answer 3

There is allegory in "A Christmas Carol." Allegory is when there is a reference to The Bible or biblical items in a piece of literature. Allegory in Stave 1 of "A Christmas Carol" is when the narrator is describing all the tiles around Scrooge's fireplace when Scrooge is seeing the face of Marley's ghost.

Answer 4

The ghost of Christmas Past symbolises Scrooges own past and is described by Dickens as looking old yet young.

The revelation of teh two children from beneath the robes of the Ghost of Christmas Present (Want and Ignorance)The girl is want and this symbolises teh scale of want across Britain of the time where poverty, disease and unemployment was rife and the Boy was Ignorance. This was to symbolise the ignorance of the upper (rich) classes who thought that the poor like to live that way and that the scale of that poverty was being over exaggerated

Answer 5

Charles Dickens uses TONS of imagery in the book A Christmas Carol one example is (dont know the page#) " The phantom slowly, gravely, siletnly, approached."

I dont know if this is imagery but if it is this is one!

Answer 6

Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail (this was the first time this term had ever been used)

solitary as an oyster

I am as giddy as a drunken man

I am as merry as a school boy

I am as happy as an angel

Answer 7

The description of the Ghost of Christmas Past.

Answer 8

Tiny Tims is described as "as good as gold"

Answer 9

Tiny Tims is described as "as good as gold"

the crisp air laughed

Answer 10

such references as refering to Scooge as "Hard and sharp as flint", and "and solitary as an oyster"