Which two elements does this excerpt from a christmas carol by charles dickens contain?
“there’s the parrot! ” cried scrooge. “green body and yellow tail, with a thing like a lettuce growing out of the top of his head; there he is! poor robin crusoe, he called him, when he came home again after sailing round the island. ‘poor robin crusoe, where have you been, robin crusoe? ’ the man thought he was dreaming, but he wasn’t. it was the parrot, you know. there goes friday, running for his life to the little creek! halloa! hoop! halloo! ”
then, with a rapidity of transition very foreign to his usual character, he said, in pity for his former self, “poor boy! ” and cried again.
“i wish,” scrooge muttered, putting his hand in his pocket, and looking about him, after drying his eyes with his cuff: “but it’s too late now.”
“what is the matter? ” asked the spirit.
“nothing,” said scrooge. “nothing. there was a boy singing a christmas carol at my door last night. i should like to have given him something: that’s all.”
reflecting on the past
establishing setting
developing figurative language
building characterization