A Christmas Carol Flashcards
(20 cards)
Which quotation explains how Scrooge doesn’t really care about anything and doesn’t show any emotion on the inside and how he acts like nothing bothers him however they actually do and he is pretending they dont?
‘Solitary as an oyster’
What does scrooge say whilst he is talking about the poorer population at Christmas?
‘Decrease the surplus population’
Which asyndetic list of gerunds is used in the first stave to describe scrooge in a horrible way?
‘Squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner’
Which quotation shows scrooge in a bad mood wherever he goes and how weather doesn’t have an effect on him?
‘External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge’
Which question does Scrooge ask to suggest he doesn’t want the poorer people on the streets?
‘Are there no prisons or workhouses?’
What metaphor describes scrooge as somebody who isn’t willing to give money to anyone.
‘But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone’
Which quote from stave 1 is an asyndetic list, uses repetition and a homophonic?
‘Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his soul friend and sole mourner’
Which parative at the very start of the novel makes you question what happened to Marley?
‘Marley was dead: to begin with’
Which quote does Dickens use to represent Scrooge as a character who doesn’t really care what name he is known by as long as he has money?
‘He answered to both names’
What was the poverty like when A Christmas Carol was written?
There was 5000 homeless per year in 1800 and 20,000 per year in 1840.
Which quote links icicles to time being stopped for scrooge in stave 2?
‘An icicle must have got into the works’
What do the ghosts repeat from what scrooge says earlier in the text to get him to realise what he said was wrong?
‘Have they mo refuge or recourse’
Which rhetorical question is used to in stave 1 to make the reader wonder if Scrooge knew Marley was dead?
‘Scrooge knew he was dead? Of course he did’
What does Scrooge say to his Nephew about being merry and poor at Christmas?
‘What reason have you got to be merry? You’re poor enough!’
After Scrooge learned to love Christmas, what did he become to Tiny Tim.
Scrooge became Tiny Tim’s ‘second father’.
What words does Scrooge continuously say to show his dislike for Christmas?
‘Bah! Humbug!’
What group of similes does scrooge use to describe how happy he is?
‘I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man’
What does Scrooge say when he sees his grave and realises what his future will be like?
‘Tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone’
Where does Scrooge first see Marley’s ghost?
Marley’s ghost first appears to Scrooge in his home then the three ghosts come after that.
What happened with prisons at the time A Christmas Carol was written?
New prisons were built and old ones wee extended.
