Stave IV of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens contains several examples of figurative language. On page 91-92, Dickens compares a bump on a man's nose to shaking like "the gills of a turkey-cock." On page 94, another simile compares the alleys to a cesspool. On the very next page, the reader can find personification in this passage:
"Secrets that few would like to scrutinize were bred and hidden in mountains of unseemly rags, masses of corrupted fat, and sepulchers of bones." (Dickens 95)
In the above passage is the bonus of the hyperbole "mountains of unseemly rags." Throughout Stave IV imagery is found as well. As the reader journeys into the future with Ebenezer Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas Future, he/she can practically feel the ominous events and smell the decay surrounding them. Dickens was masterful at putting his readers right into his stories through vivid imagery.
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