Christmas Carol Flashcards
(37 cards)
An list of adjective to describe scrooge
‘A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching,
covetous, old sinner!’
This adjective suggests that scrooge is always angry and could possible mean that he keeps he money tight or close to him. This could also suggest that he wants everything that everyone else has.
‘he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone’
This simile suggests that scrooge is alone and could suggest that he doesn’t like people around him
‘solitary as an oyster’
This simile shows that scrooge is hard like rock and cold like rock also he’s hart like an rock.
‘hard and sharp as flint’
This quote shows that scrooge is so cold and heart less that even by looking at him u can tell that he heart less and cold old man
‘The cold within him froze his old features’
This quote shows that scrooge effects everyone around him by he’s cool dens because he’s bring his bad present around him
‘He carried his own low temperature always’
This quote suggests that scrooge is tight with money because he keeps he’s offies cold.
‘he iced his office’
This quote suggests that its an story that will end as an happy ending
‘Once upon a time…’
This quote suggest that scrooge doesn’t trust the poor just in case they will take he’s money and maybe to see if he’s nit working
‘he might keep an eye on his clerk’
This quote suggests that scrooge is tight and does care about how cold is the clark and gives him an smaller amount of fair then him
‘Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was
so very much smaller that it looked like one coal’.
This quote suggests that scrooge wouldn’t give anymore coal to he’s clark doesn’t want to waste money
‘He couldn’t replenish it’
This suggest scrooge keeps all the coal in he’s room so no one can take more coal. Also suggest he’s so tight that he’s paranoid about people taking stuff.
‘Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room’
‘The fog came pouring in…’
This suggests that the fog came in hard and heavy. Also this adjective tells the reader how its coming in
‘”A Merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!” cried a cheerful voice’
This suggests that Fred is a nice guy and try’s to keep the Christmas Spirit up for scrooge
‘he was all in a glow’
This suggests that the guy was so bright that he was glowing
‘his eyes sparkled’
This suggests that he’s eyes are so shiny that they sparkled
‘Bah!…Humbug!’
This suggests that he’s annoyed at he person and he wants them to leave
‘I believe it has done me good and will do me good’
This suggests that it done him good so he’s gonna carry on the same path he’s on because it’s doing him good
‘I’ll keep my Christmas humour to the last’
This suggest that he’s gonna keep he’s Christmas Spirit to his lowest because he hates Christmas so much that he needs to keep his love for Christmas as low as possible
‘Are there no prisons?’
This suggest that scrooge thing of people like there animals and he’s saying that if there poor just throw them in prison like how u throw an stray dog in an kennel
‘We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is
keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices’
Suggests to be on time
‘Nothing!’
This suggests that scrooge is angry and wants them to leave straight away
‘If they would rather die… they had better do it, and decrease the
surplus population’
This suggests that scrooge would rather people die to decrease the population because he see them has number
‘It’s not my business’
This suggests that scrooge doesn’t care and can’t be bothered to help