Methods & Form Flashcards
All 11 cards in this deck
What form is A Christmas Carol?
A novella.
What are the five chapters of A Christmas Carol called?
Staves: a stave is a verse of a song or carol.
What subtitle did Dickens give A Christmas Carol?
A Ghost Story of Christmas.
What is the novel’s opening sentence?
“Marley was dead: to begin with.”
What kind of narrator tells the story?
An intrusive first-person narrator, who speaks directly to the reader.
Which simile compares Scrooge to a shellfish?
“solitary as an oyster” (Stave 1).
What weather surrounds Scrooge’s counting-house in Stave 1?
Fog and bitter cold: pathetic fallacy.
What weather greets Scrooge from his window in Stave 5?
“No fog, no mist; clear, bright, jovial, stirring, cold”.
Which two characters are personified ideas, making the scene an allegory?
Ignorance and Want (Stave 3).
What structural device repeats Scrooge’s own Stave 1 words back at him?
Cyclical structure: the Ghost of Christmas Present quotes “surplus population” and “Are there no prisons?”
What line ends the novel?
“God bless Us, Every One!”, as Tiny Tim observed.