Christmas Flashcards
‘every idiot who goes about Merry Christmas should be boiled with his own pudding.
L - violent hyperbolic image
Scrooge rejects Christmas as a celebration for the fools.
‘a poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty fifth of December’
L - noun
Scrooge hates Christmas as it is a day he cannot earn any money as all businesses are shut but he still has to pay a day wages.
‘blacker, dirtier, gloomy’
‘there was nothing very cheerful in the climate…yet there an air of cheerfulness’
L - comparative adjectives
The city is described to be polluted and negative as a product of rapid Industrial Revolution but it does not stop people from enjoying the Christmas spirit.
‘small pudding for a large family’
‘wonderful pudding!’
L - oxymoron
L - exclamatory sentence
The Cratchit family is grateful for what they have and is rich in Christmas spirit even they do not have much.
They understand that Christmas is about goodwill not money.
‘Christmas, a kind, forgiving charitable pleasant time when men and women open their hearts freely.
L - listing of adjectives
Fred thinks that Christmas represents a time of goodwill to other people, a season that they should be generous to others.
‘Ghost of Christmas Present blessed his four-room house’
Christmas is about goodwill to the less fortunate.
‘he begged like a boy to be allowed to stay’
L - simile
Scrooge enjoys his nephew Fred’s Christmas party so much that he wants to stay. Perhaps he regrets having turned him down.
‘all the young men and women employed in the business and the boy from over the way’
Fezziwig not only invite his own employees to his Christmas party but also the boys from over the way who is treated badly by his master.
This shows that Christmas is about goodwill to others.
‘I will honour Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year’
Scrooge has understand the spirit of Christmas time is about goodwill to all man and it shall be done all the year.
