English GCSE Flashcards
Shows that Scrooge is a harsh,evil character who is rough with his money.
‘He was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone’
Suggests that Scrooge is a very lonely character who doesn’t talk to anyone.
‘Solitary as an oyster’
Shows that Scrooge is hard to open and will never change his ways.
‘Hard and sharp as flint’
Scrooge doesn’t trust Bob Cratchit
‘he might keep an eye on his clerk’
A list of adjectives showing Scrooge’s hatred towards Christmas.
‘A squeezing,wrenching,grasping,scraping,clutching,covetous,old sinner!’
A fairytale starting
‘Once upon a time’
Scrooge has a better fire than Bob.
‘Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked’
Scrooge couldn’t fill up his fire.
‘He couldn’t replenish it’
Scrooge made the decision, over a lifetime, not to allow external forces to influence his feelings or behaviour.
‘He carried his own low temperature always’
External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge.
‘he iced his office’
he’s tight-fisted and doesn’t want to spend any more money than he must on keeping the place warm.
‘Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room’
Shows that its not the weather affecting Scrooge its how cold he is inside.
‘The cold within him froze his old features’
‘The fog came pouring in…’
The writer uses pathetic fallacy to create a desolate and stark atmosphere in the extract
‘”A Merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!” cried a cheerful voice’
Fred loves to celebrate Christmas with his uncle Scrooge.
‘he was all in a glow’
This quote shows that Fred is definitely ready for Christmas
‘his eyes sparkled’
Fred loves Christmas
‘Bah!…Humbug!’
Scrooge hates Christmas.
‘I believe it has done me good and will do me good’
Could suggest that Christmas could change the ways of Scrooge.
‘I’ll keep my Christmas humour to the last’
Everything he says focuses on the positive aspects of Christmas.
Rhetorical question
‘Are there no prisons?
It is a time to give money to the poor.
‘We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices’
Scrooge’s response to how much he’ll donate.
‘Nothing!’
Scrooge means that by dying the population of London will decrease.
‘If they would rather die… they had better do it, and decrease the
surplus population’
It’s not Scrooge’s place to interfere with other people’s lives.
‘It’s not my business’
The weather getting worser.
‘Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened so’
The cold became cooler.
‘The cold became intense’
How people celebrate Christmas.
‘Had lighted a great fire in a brazier, round which a party of ragged
men and boys were gathered: warming their hands and winking their eyes before the blaze in rapture’
Demonstrating Scrooge’s initial attitude towards Christmas and it is this attitude that needs to change.
‘A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty-fifth of
December!’
Bob possesses a childlike appreciation of innocent fun—which may be, in part, why he is such a good father.
‘The clerk…went down a slide…and then ran home to Camden Town’.
Scrooge is usually sad.
‘Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern’
We need to know that Marley is dead so we believe in his ghost when it appears.
‘Marley was dead, to begin with’.
Scrooge and Marley were sole friends
‘sole mourner’, ‘sole friend’
Instead of the door knocker, Scrooge sees Marley’s face. Marley’s face is not shadowed, like the rest of the objects in the yard, but is strangely illuminated. The expression on this disembodied face is neither angry nor violent; it looks just as Marley was apt to look when he was alive.
‘not a knocker, but Marley’s face’
This shows that Scrooge is mysterious and nyctophilic this means that he loves darkness.
‘Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it’.
Scrooge will learn that the chain serves as Marley’s punishment. As those things were his only concern in life, Marley must carry them now and forever.
‘The chain he drew was clasped around his middle’
Marley looks like he did in life except that he now appears transparent and wears a chain of items related to his business.
‘It was long…made of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds and heavy purses wrought in steel’.
It suggests that Marley and Scrooge were good partners in business.
‘In life I was your partner, Jacob Marley’
Explicit
The feeling or thought clearly stated by the writer
implicit
The feeling/thought implied by the tone and language used.
Simile
A comparison showing the similarity between two quite different things,stating that one is like the other.
For example,’His hand was like ice’
Bathos
An abrupt transition in style from the exalted to the commonplace,producing a humorous effect.
Personification
Giving something non-human,human qualities or emotions
