A Christmas carol quote homework 1

Question 1

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: secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.

Answer 1

metaphore but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone.
list to emphasise the predatory nature of scrooge similie

Question 2

“Bah!” said Scrooge, “Humbug!”

Answer 2

scrooge says these thing in a dissmisive manour which proves thatb he has no tie and hates christmas

Question 3

“every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!”

Answer 3

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should be boiled with hus own pudding and burried with a stake of holly through his heart
this emohaisses the hatred for christmas

Question 4

“Are there no prisons?… “And the Union workhouses?”… “The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?”

Answer 4

useof questions to emphasise scrooges mieserly ways

Question 5

“If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”

Answer 5

dickens makes scrooge say these thing because it hightens the tension and demonstrates how scrooge is evil and has a want for the death of the poor

Question 6

I am here tonight to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate.You will be haunted,” resumed the Ghost, “by Three Spirits.”

Answer 6

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separation in the qoute to mave the words “by three spirits” stand out to the reader