Stave 1

Question 1

‘Marley was dead, to begin with’

Answer 1

Marley - Contradictory statement - starting a beginning with an end

Question 2

‘Old Marley was as dead as a doornail’

Answer 2

Marley - Humorous simile - based on the main theme of death

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Scrooge - A list of nouns to describe Scrooge’s harsh character

Question 4

‘hard and sharp as flint’

Answer 4

Scrooge - A simile to describe Scrooge

Question 5

‘solitary as an oyster’

Answer 5

Scrooge - A simile to describe Scrooge’s loneliness

Question 6

‘He carried his own low temperature always about with him’

Answer 6

Scrooge - Imagery

Question 7

‘warning all human sympathy to keep its distance

Answer 7

Scrooge - Scrooge’s relationship with human society.

Question 8

‘old Scrooge sat busy in his counting house’

Answer 8

Scrooge - Scrooge’s greedy obsession with money

Question 9

‘a time for finding yourself a year older, and not an hour richer’

Answer 9

Scrooge - A description of Scrooge and his obsession

Question 10

‘boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart’

Answer 10

Scrooge - Scrooge’s views of society