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Q2 Practice
Look in detail at this extract.
How does the writer use language here to describe Scrooge?
You could include the writer’s choice of:
• words and phrases • language features and techniques • sentence forms
(8 marks)
Oh!
But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind- stone, Scrooge! a squeezing,
wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and
sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret,
and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. 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.
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