Literary Techniques In A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol: Literary Techniques There are multiple literary techniques used in A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens. Many of these techniques are represented in Stave I and Stave II. These techniques which are going to be mentioned are allusion, juxtaposition, and mood through word choice. These techniques will be rated from great, mediocre, and weak based on what the techniques do. Many of these techniques are either easy to understand, or confusing. Literary techniques such as mood through word choice, allusion, and juxtaposition are great, but some of these are either confusing or not helpful, respectively. A great literary technique would be mood through word choice. Mood through word choice has many different words, that are each used once, to evoke the mood in the story (Writers Write). Not only does mood through word choice evoke the mood, but it gives readers a better understanding of the story (Writers Write). Mood through word choice is also easy to identify. For example, on p. 7 when Dickens talks about men warming their hands in a great big “fire in

Juxtaposition is only used to describe the contrast between one character and another, which doesn’t help readers in the book (Glatch, Sean). For example, juxtaposition helped us find out the difference between Scrooge and his nephew, which only told us that Scrooge was rude and his nephew was nice (Glatch, Sean). In addition, readers can easily identify the differences between characters without juxtaposition. If juxtaposition helped readers more than just showing the contrast between characters, many readers would love to use this literary technique. In general, juxtaposition is weak and has no purpose in A Christmas Carol since this technique doesn’t show that much except the contrast between characters such as Scrooge and the nephew (Glatch,