Christmas Carol Key Quotes Flashcards
A quote that shows he is firm with his money
‘he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone’
List of adjectives describing scrooge
‘A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!’
A quote to show that scrooge is alone
‘solitary as an oyster’
A simile that describes scrooge cruelty
‘hard and sharp as flint’
A quote that shows the cold freezing his features
‘The cold within him froze his old features’
Temeprature
‘He carried his own low temperature always’
Iced
‘he iced his office’
Opening to a story
‘Once upon a time…’
Checks up on his clerk
‘he might keep an eye on his clerk’
Scrooges little christmas spirit
‘Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked
like one coal’.
Replenish
‘He couldn’t replenish it’
Scrooges shelfishness
‘Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room’
