What is the author's likely purpose for the figurative language used in paragraph 6? Cite at least two pieces of evidence from the paragraph in your response.

I can't be sure if your paragraph 6 matches mine. There are literally hundreds of publications of this story. If you quote the first line of the paragraph, I can find it.

"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."

PART B: Which quote from the text best supports the answer to Part A?

A. "And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to" (Paragraph 1) B. "Scrooge and he were partners for I don't know how many years" (Paragraph 3) C. "No wind that blew was bitterer than he" (Paragraph 7) D. "He could hear the people in the court outside, go wheezing up and down, beating their hands upon their breasts" (Paragraph 10)