Christams Carol Flashcards
(12 cards)
Holding onto money
‘he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone’
List of adjectives describing Scrooge
‘A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!’
Likes to keep his life private
‘solitary as an oyster’
Simile describing how hard he is.
‘hard and sharp as flint’
Scrooge has a cold heart
‘The cold within him froze his old features’
Scrooge was always cold person
‘He carried his own low temperature always’
He affects those around him
‘he iced his office’
This is the start of a novella
‘Once upon a time…’
Always checking to see if his clerk is working.
‘he might keep an eye on his clerk’
Bigger fire better than Bob
Small fire lesser than scrooge
‘Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked
like one coal’.
He can’t get more of it
‘He couldn’t replenish it’
Doesn’t want Bob to have a big fire.
‘Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room’
