A Christmas Carol Flashcards
Spectre
I fear you more than any other spectre
Scrooge about ghost of future
Gloom
It seemed to scatter gloom and mystery
Ghost of future
Solemn
A solemn phantom
Ghost of future
Rise
Rise! And walk with me
Ghost of past
Tunic
It wore a tunic of the purest white
Ghost of past
Child———>old man
Like a child: yet not like a child as like an old man
Ghost of past
Jolly
A jolly giant
Ghost of present
Ignorance
This boy is ignorance. This girl is want
Ghost of present
Unaltered
If these shadows remain unaltered by the future, the child will die
Ghost of present
Mankind
Mankind was my business
Marley
Chains
These are the chains I forged in life
Marley
Dismal
A dismal cell
Bobs working conditions
Nobler
I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one
Belle
Idol
Another idol has displaced me, a golden one
Belle
Cripple
He was a cripple
Tiny Tim
Fortune
The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune
Fezziwig
Laughed
He laughed all over himself
Fezziwig
Charitable
A kind forgiving charitable pleasant time
Fred
Rapid
He heated himself with rapid walking in the fog and frost
Fred
Idle
I don’t make merry myself at Christmas and I can’t afford to make idle people merry
Scrooge
Heart
I will honour Christmas in all of my heart
Scrooge
Surplus
If they would rather die they better do it and decrease the surplus population
Scrooge
Low temperature
He carried his own low temperature around with him
Scrooge
Neglected
A solitary child neglected by his friends
Scrooge
