Stave 1 Flashcards
Every idiot who goes about with merry Christmas on his lips should…
Be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart
What does Scrooge ask the charity workers
Are there no prisons
Who originally said the phrase “decrease the surplus population”
Thomas Malthus (Malthusian policy)
Why must readers believe in ghosts
“Or nothing wonderful can come of the story
How does dickens describe Marley
Like a bad lobster in a dark cellar
What was adorned on Marleys chain
Cash boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, heavy purses
Link by link
Yard by yard
Scrooge is describe as hard and sharp as flint from which no steel ever …
Struck out generous fire
S….. and s…-c…….. and s……. As an oyster
Secret and self-contained and solitary as an oyster
What does dickens regard as the deadest piece of iron mongery
Regard a coffin nail as the deadest piece of iron mongery
Why does dickens use authorial intrusion
So people focus on the message not the story
Language techniques in secret, self-contained and solitary as an oyster
Sibilance - shhhhh sound, quiet, keeps to himself
Triple - emphasis on isolation
Simile - idea of scrooges redemption, does he have a heart
Language techniques in boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart
Plosives- anger, creates hyperbolic effect, hates Christmas
Aspirate “h” - sighing sound, agitated, back up theme of hatred
What Shakespeare text is reference during authorial intrusion
Hamlet
