a christmas carol quotations

Question 1

“stave”

Answer 1

~name of the chapters
~musical term of the lines a composer use, in which they write notes
~metaphor

Question 2

“a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!”

Answer 2

~description of scrooge - introduction to his character
~scrooge is mean, envious of others and greedy
~list- suggesting continuous activity

Question 3

“hard and sharp as flint”

Answer 3

~description of scrooge
~he is cruel and cutting, brittle and intelligent
~simile

Question 4

“solitary as an oyster”

Answer 4

~description of scrooge
~he is always alone - reclusive, secretive, clammed tight shut, cold, shunning human contact
~simile

Question 5

“heat and cold had little influence on scrooge”

Answer 5

~description of scrooge
~he never shows any emotion or reaction to events
~metaphor

Question 6

“all in a glow”
“ruddy”
“his breath smoked”

Answer 6

~description of Fred
~he is associated with kindness and charity
~motif of light and warmth

Question 7

“‘bah!’ said scrooge. Humbug!’”

Answer 7

~comment to his nephew
~he considers Christmas to be a fraud, a waste if time and money
~exclamation, emotive

Question 8

“i am sure i have always though of Christmas time… as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time”

Answer 8

~Fred’s attitude towards Christmas
~he is the embodiment if Christmas spirit-
charity, kindness and generosity
~listing

Question 9

“Christmas is a time when Want is keenly felt and abundance rejoices”

Answer 9

~charity collectors asking for money for the poor
~Christmas as a time of generosity and kindness and society’s responsibility towards the poor
~the antithesis of scrooge’s “it’s enough for a man to understand hes own business”

Question 10

“are they no prisons?”
“are they no workhouses?”

Answer 10

~scrooge speaks to the charity collectors
~scrooge thinks these are the right places for the poor
~emotive language, repetition (same phrase repeated to scrooge by the ghost of Christmas present)

Question 11

“if they would rather die, they had better do it and decreace the surplus population”

Answer 11

~scrooge speaks to the charity collectors and refuses to give them money
~scrooge echoes the Malthusian belief that population will always outweigh the supply of food
~emotive language, dialogue

Question 12

“the owner of onw scant young nose, gnawed and mumbled by the hungry cold as bones gnawed by dogs”

Answer 12

~a young boy tries to earn some money by carol singing at scrooge’s door
~scrooge ignores the most vulnerable in society. highlighting the Victorian rich’s lack of social responsibility
~metaphor, simile

Question 13

“scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern”

Answer 13

~scrooge dines alone
~he is presented as lonely and sad
~emotive language

Question 14

“darkness was cheap and scrooge liked it”

Answer 14

~description of scrooges home
~darkness contrasts the motif of light and warmth
~motif

Question 15

“i made it link by link and yard by yard. i girded it on of my own free will and of my own free will i wore it”

Answer 15

~Marley’s ghost is explaining to scrooge about the chain he wears
~Marley admits full responsibility for his sins
~metaphor, repetition

Question 16

“there’s more of gravy then grave about you”

Answer 16

~the ghost of Jacob Marley appears to scrooge
~scrooge thinks the apparition is purely imaginary, due to indigestion
~play on words, plan