Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, 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, shrivelled 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 dog-days; and didn’t thaw it one degree at Christmas.10Select the correct answer.How does the author develop the character in this excerpt? A. through the use of descriptive detail B. through the character’s actions C. through the use of dialogue D. through the character’s thoughts

What technique is used in the following description of the character of Scrooge?"Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!"

A Christmas Carol is an 1843 novella by Charles Dickens. In the novella, Dickens depicts Ebenezer Scrooge as an old, unfeeling miser: -------Which quotation describing Scrooge from A Christmas Carol most effectively illustrates the claim?“External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge.”eliminate"He went to church... and patted children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of houses, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure."eliminate“Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.”eliminate"Sometimes people new to the business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley, but he answered to both names. It was all the same to him."

What word completes the quotation?"'He's a comical old fellow,' said Scrooge's nephew, 'that's the truth: and not so pleasant as he might be. However, his offences carry their own __________'"

Possessed of an insatiable sweet tooth, Jim enjoyed all kinds of candy, but he had a special _________      for gumdrops, his absolute favourite.*1 pointcontaineraffinityodiumnature

Which of these quotations best demonstrates Scrooge's cynical nature?"What's Christmastime to you but a time for paying bills without money?""covetous old sinner""He carried his own temperature always about with him"