Answer:
The narrative purpose of this excerpt from chapter 1 of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is developing characterization
Explanation:
The question is not complete because it does not provide the complete information, here is the complete information:
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.
A.
plot development
B.
building suspense
C.
creating dramatic irony
D.
developing characterization
This excerpt gives an extensive description of the character of Scrooge, it does not only describe him physically though words such as "pointed nose", but it also describes the essence of his soul, it uses several adjectives to describe his appearance personality and even his influence over everything around.
