A Christmas Carol GCSE Quotes gap fill

to begin with

"Marley was dead:......................"

staves

What does Dickens call his chapters which also links to the title of the text?

humbug

"A merry Christmas Uncle"->"Bah," said Scrooge, "............!"

no prisons

"Are there......................?"

melancholy

"Scrooge took his........ dinner in his usual.......tavern;"

the surplus population

"then they better do it and decrease .................." said by both Scrooge and the first Spirit

wear the chain I forged in life

"I.................................." replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link and yard by yard"

altered spirit

"In changed nature; in an ......................"

an old man

"not so like a child as .............."

a bright clear jet of light

"from the crown of its head there sprung................................."

extinguisher

"a great ............ for a cap"

passion made this cap

"Is it not enough that you are one of those whose .................................."

cold eye glisten

"Why did his ..........................., and his heart leap as they went past"

!

When the first of the three ghosts shows his old school what punctuation mark is used to show his excitement which shows how he has suppressed his feelings in the present? give the mark

Marley's face

"Not a knocker but.............. .

Marley's face."
Repetition and starting and ending a paragraph with the same line.

hand to the grindstone

"He was a tight-fisted ...................."

full of gratitude

""A small matter," said the Ghost "to make these silly folk so..........................
"Small!""

nobler aspirations

"I have seen your ..................... fall off one by one"

poor and content to be so

"Or contract is an old one" ->"when we were both.............................................................."

laughed heartily

"The mother and daughter ........................."

quite alone in the world

"there he sat. ..................................."

fragments of all the faces

"He turned to the ghost, and seeing that it looked apon him with a face, in which in some strange way there were......................................it had shown him, wrestled with it" possible symbolism for Scrooge restling with his past.

high and bright

"Its light burnt ......................................"

hung his head

"Scrooge entered timidly, and...............before this spirit" shows a change as he appears more respectfull and less arrogant"

golden idol

"I have been replaced by a....................."

capacious breast

"This garment hung so loosely on the figure, that its .......................... was bare"

sparkling eye

"its brown curls were long and free: free as its genial face, its ................, its open hand, its cheery voice"

brave in ribbons

"Cratchit's wife, dressed out but poorly in a twice turned gown, but ................................"

danced

"Young Cratchits .................about the table"

bless us

"God ...........................every one" said Tiny Tim

penitence and grief

"Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the spirit, and was overcome with .............................."

punishment

"However his offences carry their own ......................., and I have nothing to say against him."

prostrate

"They were a boy and a girl. Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish; but ................., too, in their humility"

Man's

"They are....." ghost of christmas present

This boy is ignorance. This girl is want. Beware them both

Copy and complete: "This boy is ......... This girl is ........... Beware them both"

deep black garment

"It was shrouded in a ............................."

"Lead on!" said Scrooge. "Lead on! The night is waning fast, and it is precious time to me, I know

Copy and complete"........................!" said Scrooge. "Lead on! The night is waning fast, and it is ......................... time to me, I know"

quite agonised

""If there is any person in the town, who feels emotion caused by this man's death, " said Scrooge ......................... , "show that person to me, spirit, I beseech you!"

and a fine one too

"The best he had .........................., they'd have wasted it, if it hadn't been for me"

whoop

"Hallo!.........! How are you! Merry Christmas!"

chuckle

What word is repeated a lot to show that Scrooge is giddy and hysterical?

fear and cencerity

What could 2 different ways be that Scrooge is acting reformed due to?

God bless us everyone

What is the last line of the text? It links to the idea of a Carol