Dickens (2025)

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Across
  1. 2. Dickens worked as a clerk in a ....'s office when he was 14.
  2. 4. Dickens uses a lot of E... to highlight the contrasts in society and address a critique.
  3. 8. The name for "students" that Gradgrind uses.
  4. 13. The process of publishing novels in instalments
  5. 14. The figure of speech that conveys the idea of monotony in the description of the town.
  6. 15. In the orphanage children suffered from H... and ill-treatment
  7. 19. Mr...... has a name that means "mess around"
  8. 21. The head teacher in Hard Times is Mr. ....
  9. 22. The descriptions of the characters in Dickens's novel are .... of members of the middle class
  10. 23. The name of the old Jew in Oliver Twist
  11. 25. Dickens was very good at creating realistic ... with members of different classes.
  12. 27. The setting of Hard Times is ...
  13. 29. The historical process that Dickens criticises in his works
  14. 31. The place where Oliver was born
  15. 32. In Victorian times poverty was considered a ....
  16. 33. In Hard Times, all the buildings and the people look ...
  17. 34. Dickens is buried in the .... in Westminster Abbey.
Down
  1. 1. The type of narrator in Dickens's works that comments, explains, interacts with the reader
  2. 3. Dickens worked as a ..... and this gave him the chance to study different social classes and settings
  3. 5. In all Dickens's works there's a moral lesson or a ....
  4. 6. Dickens's way of writing can be described as ...
  5. 7. Dickens was invited to the USA to give public .... of his works.
  6. 9. What is this? "He seemed a kind of cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts"
  7. 10. Louisa is forced to marry Mr. .....
  8. 11. Dickens's novels always feature a ... (2 words) where all the problems and struggles of the characters find a solution.
  9. 12. The child that gives the correct definition of a horse is ...
  10. 16. Oliver joins a gang and becomes a ....
  11. 17. The philosophy that Dickens criticises in Hard Times is called ....
  12. 18. The city where Dickens was born
  13. 19. The type of factory where Dickens worked
  14. 20. Oliver's mother was a .... woman as she had a child without being married
  15. 24. The city where Dickens worked
  16. 26. Dickens had taken .... classes when he was a child.
  17. 28. The dish the children are served at the canteen is called ...
  18. 30. Dickens's father was arrested for ...
  19. 35. Oliver Twist is an ....