A Christmas Carol Flashcards

Flashcards for A Christmas Carol

Scrooge is described as “__ old sinner”.

squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous

Scrooge is described as “Solitary as an __”.

oyster

Scrooge carries his own low __ around with him.

temperature

Scrooge says, “Every idiot who goes around with Merry Xmas on his lips… should be buried with a stake of __ through his heart”.

holly

Scrooge asks, “Are there no __? Are there no workhouses?”

prisons

Scrooge states, “If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the __ population”.

surplus

Scrooge says, “I will honour Christmas in my __. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.”

heart

Scrooge declares, “I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy, I am giddy as a __ man.

drunken

Marley states, “I wear the chain I forged in life…The chain was made up of __…ledgers…heavy purses”.

cash boxes

Marley laments, “My spirit never roved beyond the narrow limits of our money changing __”.

hole

Marley exclaims, “__ was my business!”

Mankind

Mrs Cratchit describes Scrooge: “Mr Scrooge. I’d give him a piece of my mind. An odious, stingy, hard, __ man”.

unfeeling

Belle says, “Another idol has displaced me… a __ one”.

golden

Fred states, “I have always thought of Christmas as a good time, a kind, forgiving, charitable, __ time”.

pleasant

Fan exclaims, “I have come to bring you home dear brother… home, home, __!”

home

Fezziwig says, “Yo ho there! Ebenezer! Dick! No more work __!”

tonight

The Ghost of Christmas Past asks, “Would you (Scrooge) so soon put out…the __ I give?”

light

The Ghost of Christmas Present states, “To a poor one most. Because it __ it most”.

needs

The Ghost of Christmas Present warns, “They are Man’s. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware for I see that written which is __”.

Doom

The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come description: “It was shrouded in a deep __ garment which concealed its head, its face, its form and left nothing visible except one outstretched hand”.

black