Question

select the simile in the passage. oh! but he was a tight - fisted hand at the grindstone, scrooge! hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire. the cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait. 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. from charles dickens, a christmas carol

Explanation:

A simile is a figure of speech that compares two different things using "like" or "as". In the passage, the phrase "Hard and sharp as flint" uses "as" to compare Scrooge's nature (hard and sharp) to flint, so this is the simile.

Answer:

Hard and sharp as flint