Who is it?
He is as solitary as an oyster
Scrooge
"God bless us, ___!"
Everyone
What major social issue influenced Dickens when writing A Christmas Carol?
Treatment of the poor/ poverty
Where was Dickens born?
Portsmouth
What language technique is used in the phrase “Marley was as dead as a door-nail”?
Simile
"___ was dead: to begin with."
Marley
"I will honour Christmas in my ___, and try to keep it all the year."
heart
What law made life harder for the poor and influenced Dickens’ work?
Poor Law
How did Dickens view workhouses, which are mentioned in A Christmas Carol?
Cruel and inhumane
What technique is used in “the houses opposite were mere phantoms”?
Metaphor
Whose face is all a glow?
Fred
“If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus ___.”
Population
What is purgatory?
a place or state of suffering inhabited by the souls of sinners who are expiating their sins before going to heaven or hell.
What year did Dickens write A Christmas Carol
1843
What technique is used in “No wind that blew was bitterer than he”?
Personification
Who has "A large heart"?
Little Fan
“Come in, and know me ___!”
Better
Why was Christmas becoming more popular during the Victorian era?
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert promoted it
In what year was Charles Dickens born?
1812
“The phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached.” What technique is used here?
List of three
They have the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make out service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil.
Fezziwig
“Scrooge was better than his ___.”
word
How does A Christmas Carol reflect Christian ideas?
Redemption and forgiveness
What happened to Dickens’ father that influenced his writing about poverty?
Was sent to a debtors prison
“Bob had but fifteen ‘Bob’ a week”?
Pun