Christmas carrol - 🔴💀Redemption

Question 1

R+L+D.

‘Tight-fisted’ - adjective = doesn’t like to part ways with money.

‘grindstone’ - metaphor = likes to work his customers very hard which gives the reader negative connotations of Scrooge.

‘Hard and sharp as flint’ - simile = emotionally hard and cold

‘Solitary as an oyster’ - simile = lives in a shell and doesn’t open up emotionally

Question 2

“Tonight, if you have aught to teach me, let me profit by it.”

Answer 2

Noun - Scrooge is initiareluctant to hear what the spirits have to teach him reader is happy that Scrooge is changing

Question 3

“I am not the man I was”

Answer 3

After the final spirit’s visit, Scrooge promises to be a changed man. By declaring that he is not ‘past all hope’, Dickens shows us it’s never too late to change and start making amends for past mistakes

Dickens wants to ignite change in society.

Question 4

“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man.

Answer 4

C=Dickens wants to show how kindness can bring happiness

R= happy for Scrooge

L= similies, listing