A Christmas Carol Flashcards
Stave 4
“Upon they stone of the neglected grave, his own name”
The Ghost of Christmas Present is [ QUOTE 1 ]
Quote 1: “a jolly giant, glorious to see: who bore a glowing torch”
Marley ~ Stave 1
“I am here tonight to warn you”
Stave 5
Intentions
“Glowing with his good intentions”
Mrs Cratchit, Cratchit’s wife, is [QUOTE 1 ]
Quote 1: “dressed out but poorly in a twice - turned gown, but brave in ribbons”
Marley’s Ghost explains [ QUOTE 1 ]
Quote 1: “I wear the chain I forge in life […] the chain was made up of cash boxes […] ledgers […] heavy purses”
The first ghost, the ghost of Christmas past, shows Scrooge as [ QUOTE 1 ]
Quote 1: “a lonely boy […] reading near a feeble fire”
When Bob asks Scrooge for a day off for Christmas, Scrooge says it is [ QUOTE 1 ]
Quote 1: “picking a man’s pocket every 25th of December”
Stave 5
Infinitely
“He did it all, and infinitely more”
Stave 3
Mrs Cratchit
“Mrs Cratchit entered: flushed, but smiling proudly”
Stave 3
Ignorance & Want
“They are mans […] This boy is ignorance. This girl is want”
Stave 3
Trembling
He was taken with a violent fit of trembling”
Tiny Tim, the youngest Cratchit, suffers from ill health but is still [ QUOTE 1 ] and says [ QUOTE 2 ]
Quote 1: “as good as gold”
Quote 2: “God bless us everyone”
Scrooge’s reply to Merry Christmas is [ QUOTE 1 ] and when told about the poor, Scrooge asks [ QUOTE 2 ]
Quote 1: “Bah! Humbug!”
Quote 2: “are there no prisons?”
Scrooge treats his clerk Bob Cratchit poorly; the office is a [ QUOTE 1 ] with a fire that [ QUOTE 2 ]
Quote 1: “dismal little cell”
Quote 2: “looked like one coal”
Scrooge begins the novel as [ QUOTE 1 ] and ends [ QUOTE 2 ]
Quote 1: “hard and sharp as a flint, as solitary as an oyster”
Quote 2: “as merry as a school boy”
The Ghost of Christmas Past asks Scrooge to [ QUOTE 1 ]
Quote 1: “Bear with a touch of my hand”
Stave 1
“Scrooge walked out with a growl”
The Ghost of Christmas Past is [ QUOTE 1 ] and from [ QUOTE 2 ]
Quote 1:“Like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man”
Quote 2: “crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light”
Scrooge is visited by the Ghost of Jacob Marley. Covered in chains Marley warns Scrooge that he also has a [ QUOTE 1 ]
Quote 1: “ponderous chain”
None of the Cratchits remark on the small size of their Christmas Dinner or Pudding [ QUOTE 1 ]
Quote 1: “it would have been flat heresy to do so”
Marley warns Scrooge that [ QUOTE 1 ]
“You will be haunted […] by Three Sprits”
Scrooge looks out of his window and sees [ QUOTE 1 ]
Quote 1: “the air was filled with phantoms”
Marley
“Mankind was my business”
