Once upon a time—of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve—old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. It was cold, bleak, biting weather: foggy withal: and he could hear the people in the court outside, go wheezing up and down, beating their hands upon their breasts, and stamping their feet upon the pavement stones to warm them. The city clocks had only just gone three, but it was quite dark already-it had not been light all day-and candles were flaring in the windows of the neighbouring offices, like ruddy smears upon the palpable brown air.

The narrator is the______.

What is the end of the conflict in a story?

What is the beginning of the story that provides the setting and background information? 

One way you could figure out the theme is to...

Which of the following is an example of THEME?

What is the setting of the passage below?
One summer day, Randolph the Bright slept alone in his room in the castle at Reddington. The light of the morning seeped slowly through his curtains. Randolph blinked against the day, smiling as his dream came to a peaceful conclusion. 

Simile or Metaphor:
My father is a bear in the morning.

Simile or Metaphor:
My sister is like an angel in my life.

Which is an example of a simile?

What is a metaphor?

Which of the following is an example of personification?

What is this is an example of: The clock on the wall laughed at me as I tried to finish my test before class ended.