Name______Date ______7 - _____

A Christmas Carol – RELA 7 Review

Study the reading guide for A Christmas Carol

Three short “cold reads” will also be on the test.

Quote Matching

Match the quotation with the character who spoke the words.

Some letters will be used more than once.

A. Bob Cratchit B. Fred C. portly gentlemen D. Scrooge E. Marley’s

(clerk) (nephew) visitors ghost

_____1. “I have always thought of Christmas time…as a good time; a kind,

forgiving, charitable, pleasant time…And…though it has never put

a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe it has done me good.”

_____2. “Are there no prisons? …And the Union workhouses?”

_____3. “A few of us are endeavoring to raise a fund to buy the poor some

meat and drink, and means of warmth. We chose this time…when

Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.”

_____4. “A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty-fifth of

December!”…But I suppose you must have the whole day. Be here

all the earlier the next morning.”

_____5. “I wear the chain I forged in life…I made it link by link, and yard by yard.”

_____6. “Business!...Mankind was my business…The dealings of my trade were

but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”

_____7. “I want nothing of you, I ask nothing of you; why cannot we be friends?”

_____8. “Many thousand are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of

thousands are in want of common comforts, sir.”

_____9. “I am here to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope of

escaping my fate.”

____10. “I’ll give you Mr. Scrooge, the Founder of the Feast.”

Figurative Language

Be able to identify examples of figurative language.

A. / simile
B. / metaphor
C.
D.
E. / personification
idiom
onomatopoeia

____ 11. “Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail”

_____12. "Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire, secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster"

_____13. "A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin"

_____14. "We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt and Abundance rejoices"

_____15. "The two young Cratchits hustled Tiny Tim, and bore him off into the wash- house, that he might hear the pudding singing in the copper."

_____16. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy"

_____17. "A quarter past," said Scrooge, counting. "Ding, dong!"

_____18. "As good as gold", said Bob, "and better."

_____19. "...beheld a solemn Phantom, draped and hooded, coming like a mist along the ground, toward him."

______20. "The boy was off like a shot."