A Christmas Carol

"Hard and sharp as _____"

"As solitary as an oyster" is an example of what linguistic device?

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Repetition

Who comes to visit Scrooge at his office in Stave 1?

What do the chains and lock-boxes carried by Marley's ghost represent?

• He will never escape death

• He is bound to haunt Scrooge

• His greedy and cruel deeds

• All the people whose deaths he was responsible for

"I wear the _____ I ______ in life"

What is unusual about the Ghost of Christmas Past?

• It looks like lots of contradicting things all at once

• It is a giant

• It does not speak

• It looks just like Scrooge's sister

Which characters from Scrooge's life do we meet in Stave 2?

• Bob, Fred, Marley

• Bob, Belle, the businessmen

• Fan, Fezziwig, Belle

• Fezziwig, Belle, Marley

"Father is so much ______ than he used to be"

Which of these semantic fields is used in Belle's conversation with Scrooge?

• Christmas

• Nature

• Money and transactions

• Education

What language technique is used in the quote "I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you"

• Personification

• Repetition

• Sibilance

• Anaphora