Quotes Flashcards
Squeezing-what quote and properties
Squeezing wrenching grasping scraping clutching covetous old sinner
7 negative adjective signify the 7 deadly sins -religous imagdry
Solitary -what quote and properties
Solitary as an oyster
foreshadowing, simile - hope, redemption
Ovster - shows he has a metaphorical pearl inside him waiting to be exposed - foreshadows redemption
Hard-what quote and properties
Hard and as sharp as flint
Simile
Flint is a material used to produce sparks to ignite fires - shows how easily scrooge is angered
All in -what quote and properties
‘All in a glow’ ‘his eyes sparkled’
- light symbolism - Christmas spirit, hope
Fred is the antithesis of Scrooge - directly contrasting characters
About Fred
Are there-what quote and properties
Are there no prisons
Rhetorical,poverty,greed
Scrooge’s ignorance of social issues and poverty, reflects the Malthusian view
Decrease-what quote and properties
‘Decrease the surplus population’
Malthusian view - poverty, greed
Extreme inconsideration and ignorance of treatment of lower class, capitalist ideology
I wear-what quote and properties
I wear the chain I formed in life
metaphor, symbolism, euphemism - redemption,
Marley’s actions have come back as punishment and the same will happen if Scrooge does not change
A drop-what quote and properties
‘A drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business’
metaphor - change, redemption
Emphasises the insignificance of materialistic wealth in comparison to the importance of love and family
Marley said
Father-what quote and properties
Father is so much kinder than he used to be
dialogue, past tense - poverty, family
Potential abuse/mistreatment from Scrooge’s parents in the past
Scrooge’s little sister said this
Seized-what quote and properties
‘Seized the extinguisher cap…pressed it down upon his head’
light symbolism - (rejection of) change
Refusal to recognise his need to change, ignorance, denial, old self
Chestnuts -what quote
Chestnuts ok the fire sputtered and cracked noisily
Onomatopoeia vibes sputters and cracked create a warm vibrant environment of bobs house
It’s -Wgat quote
It’s mysterious presence filled him with solemn dread
It signify seven the narrator dosnt know what the ghost of Christmas yet to come is
Semantic feild of eeriness
Another-what quote
Another idol has displaced me ,a golden one
Scrooge worships money more than his wife and sees it as a god
My-what quote
My life upon this globe is very breif
Signifys life in general and how no one is around for ever-Scrooge is running out of time to change
