Group 1
This character works for Scrooge and wanted to have Christmas day off.
Who is Bob Cratchit?
This character is Scrooge's nephew and asks him to come to dinner every year because he cares about him.
Who is Fred?
This character was Scrooge's business partner who died 7 years ago and visits Scrooge as a ghost.
Who is Jacob Marley?
This character was Scrooge's fiancee and broke up with him for loving money more.
Who is Belle?
This character was a kind man and he was Scrooge's boos when he was young.
Who is Mr. Fezziwig?
Scrooge says this should happen to poor people who don't want to go to the prisons or workhouses in Stave I.
What is die and decrease the surplus population?
When he wakes up on Christmas Day, Scrooge shows he has changed by doing this.
What is buying a turkey and sending it to the Cratchits?
All of the spirits visit Scrooge on this night.
What is Christmas Eve?
Scrooge finally celebrates Christmas at this place.
What is Fred's (his nephew's) house?
Mrs. Dilber took these three items from the dead man's house to sell in Stave IV.
What are bed curtains, blankets, and his shirt?
He said, "This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased."
Who is the Ghost of Christmas Present?
He said, “Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business.”
Who is Jacob Marley?
He said, "No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused!"
Who is the Ghost of Christmas Past?
He said, "God bless us, everyone!"
Who is Tiny Tim?
He said, “If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips, should be boiled in his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.”
Who is Ebenezer Scrooge?
The book was written during this historical period in 1843.
What is the Victorian Era?
People who couldn't afford homes were forced to live in these places and work under harsh conditions.
What are workhouses?
This is unfair treatment that people suffered in Charles Dicken's era, and sometimes people still experience it today.
What is social injustice?
A Christmas Carol takes place in this city, which is also where Charles Dickens lived.
What is London?
Charles Dickens wrote multiple books about this issue that many people faced during his time.
What is poverty?
This type of figurative language is used with the quote, "If if could work my will 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 is hyperbole?
This figurative language is used here: "Even the blinds men's dogs would wag their tails as though they said no eye at all is better than an evil eye dark master."
What is personification?
This figurative language is used in the quote, "Another idol has displaced me..." "What idol has displaced you?" "A golden one."
What is a metaphor?
This figurative language is used for this quote: "Want is keenly felt and abundance rejoices."
What is personification?
This figurative language is used in this quote, "Old Marley was as dead as a doornail."
What is a simile?