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A Christmas Carol Literary Elements and Analysis

Explore literary elements in "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, including characters, themes, and symbolism. Study quotes, themes, and key events in the novel.

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A Christmas Carol Literary Elements and Analysis

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  1. Becoming Involved Who said It? Literary Elements Potpourri The End Of It 200 200 200 200 200 400 400 400 400 400 600 600 600 600 600 800 800 800 800 800 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000

  2. This was the best part of Fred’s party.

  3. What are games?

  4. These were the children the spirit revealed to Scrooge.

  5. Who were Ignorance and Want?

  6. Scrooge was especially concerned with the future of this child.

  7. Who was Tiny Tim?

  8. It was with this spirit that Scrooge realized the poverty of his clerk’s family.

  9. Who was the Ghost of Christmas Present?

  10. Scrooge vows to do this in order to avoid the shadows shown to him.

  11. What is honor Christmas in his heart all the days of the year.

  12. “…You have never seen the likes of me before…have never walked with the younger members of my family, meaning for I am very young, my elder brothers born in these later years…”

  13. Who is The Ghost of Christmas Present?

  14. “…It is not my business. It is enough for a man to understand his own business and not to interfere with other people’s…”

  15. Who is Scrooge?

  16. “…His offences carry their own punishment, and so I have nothing to say against him…”

  17. Who is Fred Hollywell?

  18. “…Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business…”

  19. Who is Marley?

  20. “…As good as gold and better. Somehow he gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much and he thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me … that he hoped people in the church say him because he was a cripple and it might be pleasant for them to remember on Christmas day who made lame men walk and blind men see…”

  21. Who is Bob Cratchit?

  22. “…there is more of gravy that of grave about you…”

  23. What is a pun?

  24. “…with the pudding like a speckled cannonball...”

  25. What is a simile?

  26. “…pies. Plum puddings…”

  27. What is alliteration?

  28. “…from floor to form…”

  29. What is alliteration?

  30. “…there were great round potbellied baskets of chestnuts, shaped like the waistcoats of jolly old gentlemen…”

  31. What is imagery, or simile, or personification, or alliteration?

  32. Belle broke the engagement with Scrooge because of this.

  33. What is Scrooge’s love of money?

  34. This spirit did not speak to Scrooge.

  35. Who is the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come?

  36. This is how long the visits with the spirits actually took.

  37. How long is one night?

  38. Daily Double In 440 AD, the Church chose this time of year to celebrate the birth of Jesus in order to incorporate many pagan traditions and celebrations of the time.

  39. What is the Winter Solstice?

  40. This is the way Scrooge spent the rest of his life, after his encounter with the spirits.

  41. What is giving to others and kind and thoughtful?

  42. This is what Scrooge secretly sends the Cratchit family on Christmas Day.

  43. What is a turkey?

  44. This is how Scrooge reacted when people laughed at the change in him.

  45. What is he let them laugh?

  46. We must reach out and help each other in life.

  47. What is the theme of the book?

  48. This is where Scrooge spent his Christmas dinner.

  49. What is with Fred, his nephew?

  50. This is what Scrooge does for Bob Cratchit.

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