If you're timorous, you may or may not actually be shaking, but you are definitely experiencing one specific emotion-what is it? make your point with. But tremulous is more general timorous, more specific. Tremulous is a synonym of a word we've checked out before: timorous. Poulterers’ and grocers’ trades became a splendid joke: a glorious pageant, with which it was next to impossible to believe that such dull principles as bargain and sale had anything to do.Tremulous shares a root with tremble, tremor, and even tremendous, which literally means "causing trembling." If you're tremulous, you're shaking with physical weakness or with some strong emotion, like fear, nervousness, or excitement. The brightness of the shops where holly sprigs and berries crackled in the lamp heat of the windows, made pale faces ruddy as they passed. The water-plug being left in solitude, its overflowings sullenly congealed, and turned to misanthropic ice. In the main street, at the corner of the court, some labourers were repairing the gas-pipes, and had lighted a great fire in a brazier, round which a party of ragged men and boys were gathered: warming their hands and winking their eyes before the blaze in rapture. The ancient tower of a church, whose gruff old bell was always peeping slily down at Scrooge out of a Gothic window in the wall, became invisible, and struck the hours and quarters in the clouds, with tremulous vibrations afterwards as if its teeth were chattering in its frozen head up there. Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened so, that people ran about with flaring links, proffering their services to go before horses in carriages, and conduct them on their way. Taken from the following passage of Stave 1 ( Marley’s Ghost) of A Christmas Carol: Dickens emphasizes how cold the evening is by comparing the vibrations after the bell has rung to teeth chattering in its frozen head. In this extract Dickens manages to bring alive the bell of a church tower, which spends its day looking down slily at Scrooge as if watching his actions and passing judgement. Personification is used in English Language as a device to give human-like characteristics to something that is not human, such as inanimate objects, animals or a phenomena. This is an example of the figurative language Charles Dickens uses in his works, here using the literary technique of personification. Illustration from the original publication of A Christmas Carol showing Ebenezer Scrooge (left), here being visited by the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley, bound by the chains he forged in life. The bell continues to sound its regular chimes although it is so cold that this is described as having tremulous vibrations afterwards as if its teeth were chattering in its frozen head.Ĭharles Dickens was noted in his work for bringing alive non-human forms such as animals and inanimate objects, often in a humourous way, as seen in this example of a church bell appearing to watch over someone and chattering its teeth at the cold. The bell of the church tower is described as always peeping slily down at Scrooge giving a sense of watching over his actions. The fog draws in more, adding to the sense of mystery and foreboding in this supernatural story, enveloping a nearby church tower. On a bitter cold and foggy Christmas Eve and we have already been introduced to the mean-spirited character of Ebenezer Scrooge in his counting-house, who has just turned away two charity collectors attempting to collect donations for the needy at this important time for giving. This quotation is a description of a church tower in A Christmas Carol, close to Scrooge’s workplace.
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