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• a verbal attack on something is a

  diatribe

  
• a Christmas carol tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge ,visited by by spirits to help him change his ways

  
• what inspired Dickens to write a Christmas Carol

  his poor life

  read a report on the poor working conditions of women and children , he was entirely stricken down

  
• what is a stave

  a set of five lines on which music is written

  
• what is a zeitgeist

  the beliefs that motivate society

  
• I have endeavored in this Ghostly little book

  
• To raise the ghost of an idea

  
• which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves

  
• with each other ,with the season, or with me

  
• and no one wish to lay it.

  
• May it haunt their houses pleasantly

  
• to what issue were the new workhouses seen as the perfect solution?

  The ruling class believed that poor people were so lazy and immoral that helping them would only encourage them ,workhouses were designed to be awful so the poor would change their ways

  
• what is an allegory

  a story, poem or painting that the the character symbolizes a moral idea or event

  
• the door which was equipped with neither bell nor knocker ,was blistered and distained

  tramps and schoolboys

  
• Oliver Twist illegitimate workhouses origins place him at the nadir of society

  
• the gentlemen of the workhouse board ,in Oliver Twist are an example of hypocrisy

  
• what is a narrator?

  the person who tells the story in a book or a play

  
• what is a protagonist?

  the leading character ,one of the major characters in a play, film or novel

  
• who is this an image of?

  Ebenezer Scrooge

  
• the protagonist of a Christmas carol represents poverty.

  False

  
• what type of narrator is used in A Christmas carol

  third person limited

  
• "Marley was dead ,to begin with"

  
• "Old Marley was as dead as a doornail"

  
• "as dead as a doornail" ,what technique is used?

  simile

  
• no children asked him what it was o'clock

  
• as solitary as an oyster

  
• "as solitary as an oyster" ,what does this quotation suggest

  Scrooges behavior is antisocial which makes him an outsider

  Scrooge may be filthy but deep down he has a selfless personality

  
• The blind men dogs

  appeared to know him

  
• "The blind men dogs appeared to know him" ,what does this quote suggest?

  Scrooge is so antisocial that not even a dog can stand his presence

  
• nobody ever stopped to him in the street to say hello

  
• "nobody ever stopped to him in the street to say hello" ,what does this quote suggest?

  scrooges personality is so negative that people have to, avoid to interact with him so they cannot be consumed

  
• "no beggar's implored him to bestow a trifle"

  
• "no beggar's implored him to bestow a trifle" ,what does this quote suggest?

  no one would come and dare to ask Scrooge for money due to being aware of him being a selfish miser

  
• "make some slight provision for the poor and destitute ,who suffer greatly at the present time" .

  
• Malthus was an economist who believed that a perfect society would never exist due to overpopulation

  
• "Decrease the surplus population"

  
• is scrooge brusque or amiable? Explain with evidence

  Brusque ,as his speaks harshly with Bob Cratchit and towards his nephew

  
• Dickens was highly critical of the Poor Law (1834)

  
• Who is scrooges foil?

  Fred

  
• Scrooge feels aggrieved when Bob asks for Christmas Day off. Complete his response.

  "A poor excuse for picking a mans pocket every 25th of December"