Christmas Carol Dec 23
Across
- 3. In Stave One Bob is only allowed one piece of this to help him keep warm
- 4. Scrooge suggests the poor should die and decrease this part of the population
- 5. The death of this person is discussed by the businessmen in Stave Four
- 7. What Dickens wants to create in society as a result of his social protest
- 10. Dickens uses pathetic fallacy frequently which is a technique which links the emotions or mood to what in the text?
- 12. Marley was as dead as this
- 13. The goose at the Cratchits is ____ out with sage and onion
- 14. The type of dress Mrs Cratchit wears
- 15. The Gjost of Christmas Yet to come pulls these back whereas the woman in Stave Four steals them
- 17. The monarch when Dickens wrote 'A Christmas Carol'.
- 20. A Christmas Carol does not have chapters it has these
- 23. In Stave One Scrooge is compared to one of these in a simile
- 25. The opposite of Scrooge at the beginning - someone who is generous and gives to charity is this
- 27. The type of reader who reads a text when it is published
- 28. A fictional text of fewer than 100 pages
- 30. Bob's child who has a disability is called this
Down
- 1. The technique of using 'and' in a sentence frequently to create emphasis
- 2. a word for someone who is hoards their money and is miserable
- 6. In Stave One Scrooge compares Bob to one of these when he wants to be paid for Christmas Day
- 7. The time of year when 'A Christmas Carol' is set
- 8. The predominant religion of the time
- 9. Scrooge's nephew
- 11. In Stave Five Scrooge suggests he is as light as one of these which contrasts with Marley in Stave One
- 16. The relative who goes to collect young Scrooge from school
- 18. Scrooge sends this to the Cratchits in Stave Five
- 19. The young woman Scrooge could have married
- 21. The Ghost of Christmas Present is described as this kind of 'giant'
- 22. Bob Cratchit's eldest son
- 24. Only relatively wealthy children went here
- 26. Marley's first name
- 27. Marley wears these around him
- 29. One of these shines from the head of the Ghost of Christmas Past