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Scrooge Flashcards

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S1 - flint

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Hard and sharp as flint

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S1 - oyster

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Solitary as an oyster

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S1 - low

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He carried his own low temperature around with him

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S1 - mourner

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His sole executor … his sole friend and sole mourner

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s1 - grindstone

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Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge!

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s1 - squeezing

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a squeezing, wrenching, grasping scraping, clutching covetous old sinner!

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s1 - frosty

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A frosty rime was on his head

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S1 - prisons/workhouses

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‘Are there no prisons?’

‘Are there no workhouses?’

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S1 - Bah

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‘Bah!’ said Scrooge. ‘Humbug!’

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S1 - die

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‘If they would rather die they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population’

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S1 - business

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‘It is not my business’

Link: MARLEY ‘Mankind was my business’

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S1 - regret

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MARLEY’S GHOST TO SCROOGE

‘No space of regret can make amends for a one life’s opportunity missed’

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S2 - lonely

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A lonely boy was sat reading near a feeble fire

‘Feeble’ – he has become harder as a person
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S2 - solitary

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GOCP - ‘A solitary child, neglected by his friends’

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S2 - wept

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Scrooge sat down upon a form and wept to see his poor forgotten self

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S2 - Ali Baba

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‘Why it’s Ali Baba!’ Scrooge exclaimed in ecstasy

He has energy so is very happy

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S2 - boy

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‘There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night. I should like to have given him something … that’s all.’

18
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S2 - clerk

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‘I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now!’

19
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S2 - idol

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BELLE

‘Another idol has displaced me’

20
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S3 - profit

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‘Tonight, if you have aught to teach me, let me profit by it.’

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S3 - refuge

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‘Have they no refuge or resource?’ cried Scrooge.

GOCPr – ‘Are there no prisons?’
‘Are there no workhouses?’

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s4 - ha ha ha

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‘to profit us when he was dead! Ha, ha, ha!

They were in debt but because he died it makes them happy

23
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s4 - none

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BOB CRATCHIT – ‘I am sure none of us forget poor Tiny Tim’

Scrooge would now be shocked by his death
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s4 - honour

past,

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‘I will honour Christmas in my heart.’

‘I will live in the Past, the Present and the Future.’

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S5 - feather

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‘I am light as a feather.’

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S5 - baby

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‘I am quite a baby.’

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S5 - jovial

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‘No fog, no mist; clear, bright, jovial, stirring’

Compare with Stave 1

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S5 - munifi-

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CHARITABLE GENTLEMEN – ‘I don’t know what to say to such munifi- ‘

Scrooge is paying an amount beyond what anyone thought he’d ever give

29
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S5 - salary

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‘… and therefore I am about to raise your salary!’

30
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Key Words to describe Scrooge

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Avaricious - having or showing an extreme greed for wealth gain
Misanthropic - hatred for mankind

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