From A Christmas Carol, what literary devices are in the following quote?: "External heat and cold had little effect on Scrooge. No warmth could warm,...

In this quotation,
the narrator uses an , comparing Scrooge, a person, to the weather in order
to explain his character more fully. Thus, Scrooge appears, as a result of this analogy, to be
rather impervious and unyielding. The weather changestemperatures go up and down, the wind may
or may not blow, snow or rain might fallbut Scrooge does not. He is always cold, figuratively.
Literal, physical coldness is equated with emotional coldness, and literal, physical warmth is
equated with the presence of emotion. The blowing wind is bitter cold, yes, and this is
physical, but Scrooge is bitter in a different way: he is emotionally cold and detached, feeling
no warmth toward his fellow human beings, no compassion, and so on.

Further, notice the , the repetition of the initial
consonant sound, in the following words: warmth, warm,
wintry, weather, and wind. The repeated
"w" sound is rather soft, especially compared to the alliterative "b" in
blew and bitterer and the alliterative...
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