Feature Spotting Flashcards
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail.
Simile
Cliche
Collocation
Mind! I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail.
Imperative
Divergence
Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner.
Repetition
Anaphora
Homophone
Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event, but that he was an excellent man of business on the very day of the funeral, and solemnised it with an undoubted bargain.
Irony
Humour
If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet’s Father died before the play began,
Literary reference
Sometimes people new to the business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley,
Contrastive pair
But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge!
Metaphor
a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!
Asyndetic list of gerunds
Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire;
Simile
secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
Simile
The cold within him froze his old features,
Metaphor
No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him.
Metaphor
Contrastive pair
No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.
Anaphora
Asyndeton
If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
Foreshadowing
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, became invisible, and struck the hours and quarters in the clouds, with tremulous vibrations afterwards as if its teeth were chattering in its frozen head up there.
Anthropomorphism
