Figurative Language in A Christmas Carol

"Old Marley was as dead as a doornail."

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"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

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

"Hard and sharp as flint."

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"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

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"Piercing, searching, biting cold."

• allusion

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"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

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

". . . 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

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

'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

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"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

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3