A Christmas Carol General
The people that Present sprinkles kindness on the most.
Who are the poor?
"Take your leave of my offices, sirs, while I am still smiling"
Who is Scrooge?
to secretly listen to a conversation
Who is Margot?
An example: "The mall was a zoo"
What is a metaphor?
The city and year of the play.
London, 1843
"You wish to be left anonymous?"
To take a winding or indirect course
What is meander?
The author of "Seventh Grade"
Who is Gary Soto?
An example: The trees danced in the wind
What is personification?
One of the Cratchit children besides Tiny Tim (name one)
Who is Belinda, Peter, Martha, Little Bob?
"What right do you have to be dismal? What reason do you have to be morose? You're rich enough."
Who is Nephew?
To confuse or puzzle; to perplex
What is bewilder?
What is Venus?
The point of view in which the narrator knows all characters' thoughts
What is third-person omniscient?
The number of businessmen who discuss Scrooge's death in the text.
What is three?
"Bring down Master Scrooge's travel box at once! He is to travel!"
Who is the schoolmaster?
Special words used by a specific group or professions that are difficult for others to understand.
What is jargon?
The object that Tommy found in "The Fun They Had"
What is a book?
The point of view in which the narrator does not have access to any characters' thoughts or feelings
What is third-person objective?
The amount of money that Bob Cratchit makes in a week.
"You fear the world too much. Have I not seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you? Have I not?"
Who is Woman, Belle, or Scrooge's fiance?
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory by in reality expresses a possible truth
paradox
The name of the professor in the short story "Zoo" by Edward Hoch
Who is Professor Hugo?
The event that begins the major conflict of the story
What is the inciting incident?