"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."
What is a hyperbole?
100
"You travel fast?" said Scrooge.
"On the wings of the wind," replied the Ghost.
What is a metaphor?
or
What is hyperbole?
100
"Every time he resolved within himself...that it was all a dream, his mind flew back again, like a strong spring released, to its first position and presented the same problem."
What is a simile?
100
"They shone in every part of the dance like moons."
What is a simile?
100
"The chain he drew was clasped about his middle. It was long, and wound about him like a tail."
What is a simile?
What are a chain and a tail?
200
"The ancient tower of a church had a gruff old bell that was always peeping slyly down at Scrooge out of a Gothic window in the wall."
What is personification?
200
"The truth is, that he tried to keep down his terror, for the specter's voice disturbed the very marrow of his bones."
What is hyperbole?
200
"The face had not a wrinkle in it, and the tenderest bloom was on the skin."
What is a metaphor?
200
"The happiness he give is quite as great as if it costs a fortune."
What is a simile?
200
"Again, the specter raised a cry, and shook his chain, and wrung his shadowy hands."
What is a metaphor?
What are his hands and a wet cloth?
300
"The gruff old bell struck the hours and quarters in the clouds with tremulous vibrations afterward, as if its teeth were chattering in its frozen head up there."
What is personification?
300
"They were succeeded by a clanking noise, deep down below; as if some person were dragging a heavy chain over the casks in the wind merchant's cellar."
What is a simile?
300
"Home, for good and all. Home, for ever and ever."
What is hyperbole?
300
"There was an eager, greedy, restless motion in the eye, which showed the passion that had taken root, and where the shadow of the growing tree would fall."
What is a metaphor?
300
"In came a fiddler with a music book and went up to the loft...and tuned (his fiddle) like fifty stomach-aches."
What is a simile?
what are a fiddler tuning his fiddle and fifty stomach aches?
400
"A poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every twenty-fifth of December!"
What is an idiom?
400
"There were Cains and Abels, Pharoah's daughters, Queens of Sheba, angelic messengers descending through the air..."
What is an allusion?
400
"The quick wheels dashed the hoar frost and snow from off the dark leaves of the evergreens like spray."
What is a simile?
400
"The two young Cratchits hustled Tiny Tim and bore him off into the washhouse, that he might hear the pudding singing in the copper pot."
What is personification?
400
"The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!"
What is a metaphor?
What are dealings of my trade and drop of water in the ocean?
500
"If the good Said Dunstan had but nipped the Evil Spirit's nose with a touch of such weather as that..."
What is an allusion?
500
"Why did I walk through crowds of fellow beings with my eyes turned down, and never raised them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode?"
What is an allusion?
500
"They charged into the street...panting like race horses."
What is a simile?
500
"He thought that such another creature, quite as graceful and full of promise, might have called him farther and been a springtime in the haggard winter of his life."
What is an analogy?
500
"The Spirit signed to him to listen to the two apprentices, who were pouring out their hearts in praise of Fezziwig."
What is a metaphor?
What are their hearts and some vessel with liquid?