Stave 1 Christmas Carol Quotes Flashcards
Wouldn’t let go of money- something to do with grinding flour
‘He was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone’
List if adjectives describing
‘A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clitching, covetous, old sinner!’
Simile
‘As solitary as an oyster’
Simile showing his roughness
‘Hard and sharp asflint’
His mood affects his surroundings
‘The cold within him froze his old features’
He affects his working place
‘He iced his office’
Fairytale opener
‘Once upon a time…’
He doesn’t trust Bob
‘he might keep an eye out on his clerk’
Fire comparison
‘Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal’
He can’t lighten it again
‘He couldn’t replenish it’
What does he have with him
‘He carried his own low temperature’
He had so something in his room
‘Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room’
Something entered the office
‘The fog came pouring in’
First words from Fred
“A merry christmas, uncle! God save you!” Cried a cheerful voice
What was Fred in
‘He was all in a glow’
Fred’s eyes
‘His eyes sparkled’
Most famous lines
‘Bah!…Humbug!’
Fred’s view on christmas
‘I believe it has done me good and will do me good’
Fred’s response to Scrooge
‘I will keep my Christmas humour to the last’
Scrooges response to the charity men
‘Are there no prison?’
One word
‘Nothing!’
A speech
‘We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is kneely felt, and Abundance rejoices’
