Key quotes Flashcards
A use of pathetic fallacy used to describe Scrooge’s isolation in stave 1.
‘No warmth could warm him, no wintry weather chill him’
In Dicken’s opinion, the two major problems which caused poverty (and by writing A Christmas Carol he hopes to tackle the problem of), personified are?
‘Ignorance and Want’
An asyndetic list in stave 1, which is followed by a simile.
‘squeezing, wrenching, grasping, covetuous…’
Literary reference in stave 5 used to describe Scrooge whilst he dresses himself.
‘Laocoön’
In stave 1, Scrooge repetitively says the phrase to his nephew, Fred in order to show his separation from christmas.
‘Good afternoon’
How is the school described (before Fan enters) in stave 2?
‘The panels shrunk, the windows cracked; fragments of plaster fell out of the ceiling’
When Fan enters in stave 2 she hints that Scrooge has a chance of redemption as she says…
‘Father is so much kinder than he used to be, that home’s like Heaven!’
A simile in stave 1 which describes Marley’s ghost’s chains and releases some tension in the novella.
‘wound about him like a tail’
A use of anaphora in stave 2 which provides evidence of Fezziwig’s generosity.
‘in came’
A use of dramatic irony in stave 5, in which Scrooge suspects that he knows who the repeatedly mentioned man is.
‘The case of this unhappy man might be my own’
In stave 3, the reader learns that Bob is keen for his son to start working as a ‘…’.
This emphasises that the Cratchits are eager to work.
‘man of business’
In stave 2, Belle’s family are described by a use of imagery ‘ spring-time…’
‘…in the haggard winter’
Near the end of stave 5, an anaphoric list is used to describe Fred’s party which echoes the anaphoric list in stave 2 when Fezziwig’s party was described.
‘they came’
A motif throughout the novella is Scrooge’s bed and at the end of stave 4 the reader is told that the ghost…
‘dwindled down into a bedpost’.
In stave 4, Tiny Tim is repetitively described by Bob (in order to make the reader sympathetic) as his…
‘little, little child’
