A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens uses distinct techniques of sentence structure to formulate meaning in his story, A Christmas Carol. "Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail" (1). Here Dickens uses a simile to emphasize that Marley was most definitely deceased. Another technique that Dickens uses is parallelism. For example, "Scrooge. A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!" (2). Dickens also uses diction. "No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him" (3). This statement causes the reader to form the opinion that Scrooge is cold-hearted, insensitive, unfriendly. These are just a few of the sentence structure tactics that Charles Dickens uses in A Christmas Carol.