Stave 1, part 2
1. Identify 2 supernatural things Scrooge saw when he got home.
2. Why does Scrooge keep his house so dark?
3. What did Scrooge do when he got to his room that was unusual for him?
4. What did Scrooge think he saw in the tiles of the fireplace?
5. What first announced the coming of Marley’s ghost?
6. Identify the type of humor in the following example: (euphemism, hyperbole, pun,
sarcasm/irony, satire, understatement). “I have sat invisible beside you many
and many a day.” It was not an agreeable idea. Scrooge shivered, and wiped
the perspiration from his brow.
7. Describe the chain Marley’s ghost was carrying. Why was it made of those things?
Provide support.
8. “I am here tonight to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my
fate. A chance and hope of my procuring.”
a. Who said this?
b. Who is the “you” in the quote?
9. What type of conflict (man v. man, man v. self, man v. fate, man v. society, man v.
nature) is the following:
a. Scrooge refuses to keep Christmas in the way other people do.
b. Though he is terrified, Scrooge tells himself it’s all humbug when Marley’s
ghost first appears.
10. Authors use allusions for a number of purposes. The following list gives an idea of
some of those purposes:
a. to make a story more realistic/believable
b. to make an idea/image easier to perceive
c. to give the reader the flavor of a particular era
d. to establish a character’s attitude/personality
e. to convey the mood of a scene
Why does Dickens include the following allusions:
a. You may talk vaguely about driving a coach and six up a good old
flight of stairs or through a bad young Act of Parliament; but I mean
to say you might have got a hearse up that staircase, and taken it
broadwise...and done it easy.
b. ...And yet that face of Marley, seven years dead, came like the ancient
Prophet’s rod, and swallowed up the whole.
c. The Ghost, on hearing this, set up another cry, and clanked his chain
so hideously in the dead silence of the night, that the Ward would
have been justified in indicting it for a nuisance.
d. “My spirit never walked beyond our counting-house -- mark me! -- in
life my spirit never roved beyond the narrow limits of our
money-changing hole....”
1. Identify 2 supernatural things Scrooge saw when he got home.
2. Why does Scrooge keep his house so dark?
3. What did Scrooge do when he got to his room that was unusual for him?
4. What did Scrooge think he saw in the tiles of the fireplace?
5. What first announced the coming of Marley’s ghost?
6. Identify the type of humor in the following example: (euphemism, hyperbole, pun,
sarcasm/irony, satire, understatement). “I have sat invisible beside you many
and many a day.” It was not an agreeable idea. Scrooge shivered, and wiped
the perspiration from his brow.
7. Describe the chain Marley’s ghost was carrying. Why was it made of those things?
Provide support.
8. “I am here tonight to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my
fate. A chance and hope of my procuring.”
a. Who said this?
b. Who is the “you” in the quote?
9. What type of conflict (man v. man, man v. self, man v. fate, man v. society, man v.
nature) is the following:
a. Scrooge refuses to keep Christmas in the way other people do.
b. Though he is terrified, Scrooge tells himself it’s all humbug when Marley’s
ghost first appears.
10. Authors use allusions for a number of purposes. The following list gives an idea of
some of those purposes:
a. to make a story more realistic/believable
b. to make an idea/image easier to perceive
c. to give the reader the flavor of a particular era
d. to establish a character’s attitude/personality
e. to convey the mood of a scene
Why does Dickens include the following allusions:
a. You may talk vaguely about driving a coach and six up a good old
flight of stairs or through a bad young Act of Parliament; but I mean
to say you might have got a hearse up that staircase, and taken it
broadwise...and done it easy.
b. ...And yet that face of Marley, seven years dead, came like the ancient
Prophet’s rod, and swallowed up the whole.
c. The Ghost, on hearing this, set up another cry, and clanked his chain
so hideously in the dead silence of the night, that the Ward would
have been justified in indicting it for a nuisance.
d. “My spirit never walked beyond our counting-house -- mark me! -- in
life my spirit never roved beyond the narrow limits of our
money-changing hole....”