A Christmas Carol Literary Devices Review

Marley's ghost recalls being an ignorant man who ignored the plights of other people: "Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down, and never raise them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode? Were there no poor homes to which its light would have conducted me!" What literary device does Dickens use for Marley's character's words?

• Foreshadowing

• Irony

• Metaphor

• Allusion

Which literary device is used when the Ghost of Christmas Past is described as "a strange figure [with] long, white, flowing hair"?

• Foreshadowing

• Imagery

• Personification

• Similes

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What literary device is used when Scrooge's transformation is described as "as good a man, as the good old city knew"?

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Irony

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Which literary device is used when the setting of the story is described as "a city of immense wealth, of a great trade, of great buildings, and great population"?

• Similes

• Allusion

• Personification

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What literary device is used when Scrooge's nephew, Fred, is described as "a comely-looking girl of considerable beauty"?

• Metaphor

• Foreshadowing

• Alliteration

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which literary device is used when the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come is described as '"a solemn Phantom"?

• Similes

• Personification

• Foreshadowing

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What literary devices are used when Scrooge's greed is described as "a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner"?

• Allusion and Metaphor

• Personification

  (Epithet String) and Alliteration

• Simile and Metaphor

• Irony and Imagy

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which literary device is used when the description of the Scrooge is described as being someone who "No warmth could warm, nor wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he [...]"?

• Similes

• Irony

• Alliteration

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What literary device is used for ""If I could work my will,' said Scrooge, indignantly, 'every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas,’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!'"

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Irony
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Name the literary device used in this passage from Stave I:

"The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shriveled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin.  He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dogdays; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas."

• Alliteration
• Imagery

• None of these

• Allegory

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3