A Christmas Carol

Question 1

Scrooges view on poor people
Trigger words:Decrease Population

Answer 1

“If they would rather die they had better do it and decrease the surplus population”
Emotive Language

Question 2

Marley’s guilt
Trigger words:Chain

Answer 2

”I wear the chain I forged in life”
Chain:Symbolism
Whole quote:Metaphor

Question 3

Trigger words:Ignorance Want

Answer 3

“The boy is ignorance and the girl is want”
Boy is symbolism for rich people
Girl is symbolism for greed how rich people want more

Question 4

Trigger words:Flint

Answer 4

”Hard and sharp as flint”
Simile

Question 5

Trigger words:Light

Answer 5

“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy…..”
Simile

Question 6

Trigger words:Oyster

Answer 6

“Solitary as an oyster”
Simile

Question 7

Trigger word:Darkness

Answer 7

”Darkness is cheap and Scrooge liked it”
Symbolises Scrooges choice to live cut off from other people

Question 8

Trigger word:Laughed

Answer 8

“His own heart laughed”
Personification

Question 9

Trigger word:Light

Answer 9

”The light shone out of the ghost of christmas past”
The light is Symbolism

Question 10

Trigger word:Happiness

Answer 10

“The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune”
Hyperbole

Question 11

Trigger word:Gain

Answer 11

”Gain engrosses you”
Metaphor

Question 12

Trigger word:Gold

Answer 12

As good as gold
Simile

Question 13

Trigger word:Covetous

Answer 13

“Covetous old sinner”
Epithet

Question 14

Trigger word:Grindstone

Answer 14

“Tight fisted hand at the grindstone”
Metaphor
Scrooges relentless dedication to work as a grindstone is a device used to sharpen tools by grinding them against its surface

Question 15

Form of A Christmas Carol

Answer 15

-Novella(can be read as a carol hence the title a christmas carol”
-Dickens has called each section a stave instead of a chapter a stave is 5 lines where in the novella there are 5 chapters
-Prose(natural flow)

Question 16

Structure of A Christmas Carol

Answer 16

-Mimics the way a musical piece is put together
-5 clear staves which is compelling because a stave is 5 lines
-Links to the theme of christmas by reflecting the typical shape of a carol
-Scrooge’s redemption at the end leaves the reader with a sense of completion

Question 17

Context of A Christmas Carol

Answer 17

Poverty and charity
There was a belief that poor people were lazy so many of the rich were willingly ignorant
Capitalism vs socialism
Scrooge was a capitalist and Dickens was a socialist
Portly gentlemen
They symbolise intense philanthropy
Religion
Victorian society is very religious which includes shops and leisure time on sunday however Scrooge disagreed with this as the author disagreed with blue laws
Poverty and charity
There was a belief that poor people were lazy so many of the rich were willingly ignorant
Capitalism vs socialism
Scrooge was a capitalist and Dickens was a socialist
Portly gentlemen
They symbolise intense philanthropy
Religion
Victorian society is very religious which includes shops and leisure time on sunday however Scrooge disagreed with this as the author disagreed with blue laws