Quotes Flashcards
(44 cards)
He doesn’t like to let go of money easily
‘he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone’
A series of adjectives to describe him
‘A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!’
A simile to show he is hard headed
‘hard and sharp as flint’
Says how he used to be different
‘The cold within him froze his old features’
He has always been cold hearted
‘He carried his own low temperature always’
Everywhere he goes is cold
- ‘he iced his office’
This is to show there was a different time
‘Once upon a time…’
Watching his clerk
‘‘he might keep an eye on his clerk’
Scrooge is selfish and doesn’t want to use his money for fire
‘Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked
like one coal’.
Scrooge can not redo what he has done
‘He couldn’t replenish it’
Scrooge is selfish and doesn’t want to share his coal
‘Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room’
A simile to show he likes to be isolated
‘solitary as an oyster’
Loads of fog
13.‘The fog came pouring in…’
Fred coming into scene with cheerful voice
14.‘”A Merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!” cried a cheerful voice’
Fred glowing
15.‘he was all in a glow’
Freds eyes standing out
16.‘his eyes sparkled’
Scrooges foul mood in christmas
17.‘Bah!…Humbug!’
Fred believing in christmas doing him good
18.‘I believe it has done me good and will do me good’
Last line before he leaves his office
19.‘I’ll keep my Christmas humour to the last’
Scrooge being cruel towards the poor
20.‘Are there no prisons?’
When thinking of others how it is their time
21.‘We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices’
Black into the distance
22.‘Nothing!’
Scrooge talking about surplussing the population
23.‘If they would rather die… they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population’
Talking about how it’s not his business
24.‘It’s not my business’
