WHO SAID IT? Flashcards

1
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“My dear Scrooge, how are you? When will you come to see me?”

A

Nobody

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2
Q

“A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!”

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Fred

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3
Q

“Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry? You’re poor enough.”

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Scrooge

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4
Q

“I want nothing from you; I ask nothing of you; why cannot we be friends?”

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Fred

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5
Q

“The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?”

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Scrooge

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6
Q

“We have no doubt his liberality is well represented by his surviving partner,”

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The charitable gentlemen

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7
Q

“If quite convenient, sir.”

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Bob Cratchit

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8
Q

“Ask me who I was.”

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Marley’s ghost

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9
Q

“Without their visits, you cannot hope to shun the path I tread. Expect the first to-morrow, when the bell tolls One.”

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Marley’s ghost

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10
Q

“Your lip is trembling and what is that upon your cheek?”

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Ghost of Christmas Past

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11
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“A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.”

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Ghost of Christmas Past

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12
Q

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

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Scrooge

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13
Q

3

“Father is so much kinder than he used to be, that home’s like Heaven!”

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Fran

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14
Q

“He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil.”

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Scrooge

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15
Q

“Leave me! Take me back. Haunt me no longer!”

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Scrooge

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16
Q

“You have never seen the like of me before!”

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The Ghost of Christmas Present

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17
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“To-night, if you have aught to teach me, let me profit by it.”

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i

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18
Q

“God bless us every one!”

A

i

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19
Q

“If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.”

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i

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20
Q

“What then? If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.

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i

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21
Q

“Oh God! to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust!”

A

i

22
Q

“He said that Christmas was a humbug, as I live!”

A

i

23
Q

“Marley was dead to begin with.”

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Narrator
Stave One
Ideas about: intrigue and the unexpected

24
Q

“he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!”

A

Narrator
Stave One
Ideas about: a biased narrator
Technique: hyperbole

25
Q

“Hard and sharp as flint”

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Narrator
Stave One
Ideas about: Scrooge
Technique: simile

26
Q

“Solitary as an oyster”

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Narrator
Stave One
Ideas about Scrooge
Technique: simile

27
Q

“I can’t afford to make idle people merry”

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Scrooge
Stave One
Ideas about: attitudes to the poor

28
Q

“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”

A

Scrooge
Stave One
Ideas about: Cold logic/ attitudes to the poor

29
Q

“I wear the chain I forged in life”

A

Jacob Marley
Stave One
Ideas about: Consequences and fate

30
Q

“From the crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light.”

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Stave Two

Ideas about: symbols (truth)

31
Q

“Your reclamation, then. Take heed!”

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Ghost of Christmas Past
Stave Two
Ideas about: Redemption/ Transformation

32
Q

“Your lip is trembling,” said the Ghost. “And what is that upon your cheek?”

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The Ghost of Christmas Past
Stave Two
Ideas about: Redemption/Transformation and emotion

33
Q

“A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.”

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The Ghost of Christmas Past
Stave Two
Ideas about: Childhood and determinism

34
Q

“He has the power to render us happy or unhappy […] The happiness he gives is quite as much as if it cost a fortune.”

A

Scrooge
Stave Two
Ideas about: Generosity and leadership

35
Q

“I have seen your nobler aspirations fall of one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you.”

A

Belle
Stave Two
Ideas about: Obsession and avarice (extreme greed)

36
Q

“Remove me!” Scrooge exclaimed. “I cannot bear it!”

A

Scrooge
Stave Two
Ideas about: Truth and reflection

37
Q

“these young Cratchits danced about the table.”

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Stave Three

Ideas about: Childhood and determinism

38
Q

‘With an interest he had never felt before…“No, no…Oh no, kind Spirit! Say he will be spared” ‘

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Scrooge
Stave Three
Ideas about: Redemption/Transformation and empathy

39
Q

“If he die, he better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”

A

i

40
Q

“I am sorry for him […] Who suffers by his ill whims? Himself, always.”

A

i

41
Q

“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both […] They are Man’s”

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i

42
Q

“Plundered and bereft, unwatched, unwept, uncared for, was the body of this man”

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i

43
Q

“Avarice, hard dealing, griping cares? They have brought him to a rich end, truly!”

A

i

44
Q

“The kind hand trembled.”

A

i

45
Q

“No fog, no mist; clear, bright, jovial…heavenly sky, sweet fresh air.”

A

i

46
Q

“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy…I am as giddy as a drunken man”

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i

47
Q

“I don’t know how long I have been among the Spirits. I don’t know anything. I’m quite a baby.”

A

i

48
Q

Scrooge regarded everyone with a delighted smile.”

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i

49
Q

“His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.”

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i

50
Q

“No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him.”

A

i

51
Q

“Open our shut up hearts freely”

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i