Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol uses literary devices such as similes, metaphors, and imagery to explore the capacity for change and show how the main character, Scrooge, transforms throughout the story through his encounters with the ghosts. The document provides an example of Dickens' use of simile to compare Scrooge to flint at the beginning of the story to portray him as cold and hard. This reveals that with change, people can transform their lives for the better even when they seem impossible to change.

2. In A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens utilizes a plethora of
literary devices such as similes, metaphors, imagery, and
denouement to explore the capacity for change. This reveals
that changing is never impossible until you’re six-feet under. A
simile is a comparison that usually uses the word “like” or “as”.
Dickens’ use of similes demonstrates how Scrooge changes
throughout the story and because of this, we see how changing
all aspects of yourself isn’t impossible. “Hard and sharp as flint,
from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret,
and self- contained, and solitary as an oyster.” (Dickens #3) By
saying “Hard and sharp as flint”, the simile is used to compare
Scrooge to a stone, which is cold and hard.

3. Question:
What is the writing style of A Christmas Carol?

4. Question:
What is the writing style of A Christmas Carol?
Answers:
The tale is written as a novella. This is a short
piece of fiction - longer than a short story,
but shorter than a novel. Dickens published A
Christmas Carol on 19th December 1843.