A Christmas Carol Flashcards
Scrooge quotation to do with him being cold hearted
“External heat and cold little influence on Scrooge”
Scrooge quotation to do with him being transformed
“Scrooge waas better than his word”
Scrooge quotation to do with him fearful
“Ghost of the Future, I fear you more than any spectire seen”
Scrooge quotation to do with him lonely
“A solitary child, neglected by his friends”
Scrooge quotation to do with him being desperate
“Tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!”
Scrooge quotation to do with him beign anti social
“Solitary as an oyster”
Scrooge quotation to do with him being uncharitable
“I can’t afford to make idle people merry”
Scrooge quotation to do with him being regretful
“There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night. I should like to have given him something”
Nephew quotation to do with him being loyal
“I have nothing to say against him”
Nephew quotation to do with him being hopeful
“he can’t help thinking better of [Christmas] if he finds me going there, in good temper, year after year”
Nephew quotation to do with him being determined
“I mean to give him the same chance every year, whether he likes it or not”
Nephew quotation to do with him being puzzled
“I want nothing from you; I ask nothing of you; why cannot we be friends”
Jacob Marley quotation to do with him being desperate
“Hear me! My time is nearly gone”
Jacob Marley quotation to do with him being tortured
“No rest, no peace. Incessant torture of remorse”
Jacob Marley quotation to do with him caring for Scrooge
1) “you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate”
2) “A chance and hope of my procuring Ebenezer”
Jacob Marley quotation to do with him being regretful
“Mankind should have been my business”
Jacob Marley quotation to do with him being remorsful
“Why did I walk through crowds of fellow beings with my eyes turned down”
Jacob Marley quotation to do with him being ignorant
“Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life’s oppurtunity misused”
Ghost of Christmas present quotation to do with him being friendly
1) “a jolly giant”
2) “joyful air”
3) “cheery voice”
4) “the spirit’s eyes were clear and kind”
Ghost of Christmas present quotation to do with him being dominant
“A strange voice called him by his name and bade him enter. He obeyed”
Ghost of Christmas present quotation to do with him being omnipresent
“A place where miners live, who labour in the bowels of earth […] They found a cheerful company”
Ghost of Christmas present quotation to do with him being presicient
“I see a vacant seat […] the child will die”
Ghost of Christmas present quotation to do with him being echoing
“If he’s like to die, he better do it and decrease the surplus population”
Ghost of Christmas present quotation to do with him being supernatural
“he shed a few drops of water […] and their good humor was restored”
Bob Cratchit quotation to do with him being maltreated
“the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller”
Bob Cratchit quotation to do with him being grateful
“I’ll give you Mr Scrooge the Founder of the Feast!”
Bob Cratchit quotation to do with him being loved
“the two young Cratchits got upon his knees and laid, each child a little cheek, against his face”
Bob Cratchit quotation to do with him being fearful
“Bob held his witherd little hand in his, as if he […] dreaded that he might be taken from him”
Bob Cratchit quotation to do with him being revered
“Spirit of Tiny Tim, thy childish essence was from God!”
Bob Cratchit quotation to do with him being playful
“The clerk […] went down a slide on Cornhill […] twenty times in honour of its being Christmas Eve”
Ghost of Christmas yet to come quotation to do with him beingpowerful
“it seemed to scatter gloom and misery”
Ghost of Christmas yet to come quotation to do with him being silent
“the Spirit neither spoke nor moved”
Ghost of Christmas yet to come quotation to do with him being ephemeral
“It shrunk, collapsed and dwindled into a bedpose”
Ghost of Christmas yet to come quotation to do with him being unquivocal
“The finger pointed from the grave to him, and back again”
Ghost of Christmas yet to come quotation to do with him being fearsome
“his legs trembled beneath him”
Ghost of Christmas yet to come quotation to do with him being patient
“The Spirit paused a moment […] giving him time to recover”
Ghost of Christmas yet to come quotation to do with him being portentous
“The Spirit stood among the graves, and pointed down to One”
Ghost of Christmas yet to come quotation to do with him being inistent
“Still the Ghost pointed with an unmoved finger to the head”
Ghost of Christmas past quotation to do with him being supernatural
“Scrooge […] found himself face to face with the unearthly visitor”
Ghost of Christmas past quotation to do with him being ever changing
“the figure itself fluctuated in its distinctness”
Ghost of Christmas past quotation to do with him being sarcastic
“Strange to have forgotten it for so many years”
Ghost of Christmas past quotation to do with him being dimmed
“you are one of those whose passions made this cap”
Ghost of Christmas past quotation to do with him being assertive
1) “The grasp, through gentle as a woman’s hand was not to be resisted”
2) “the relentless Ghost prisoned him in both his arms and forced him to observe”
Ghost of Christmas past quotation to do with him reminding Scrooge of family bond
“She died a woman, and had, as I think, children […] Your nephew!”
Ghost of Christmas past quotation to do with him encouraging remorse and regret
1) “There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night. I should like to have given him something”
2) “when he thought that such another creature […] might have called him father his sight grew very dim indeed78
