story to act as a warning to Scrooge, as Marley was just like Scrooge when he was alive, but now in death he has had to repay all the bad things he has done by wearing chains. The tension in this scene is conveyed by the dialogue between the two characters. The author uses short sentences to give a feel of the uneasiness felt between Scrooge and Marley.
             ""Can you sit down?" asked Scrooge, looking doubtfully
             When Scrooge first meets Marley, he doesn't believe that Marley is actually there and the describes him as,
             "You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb
             of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy
             than of grave about you, whatever you are!"
             To make this give a big impact, the author uses alliteration e.g. "bit of beef" and "gravy than of grave".
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