Key words for your study of A Christmas Carol
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reader |
The explanation of the background material necessary for the reader to understand the story.
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writer |
The atmosphere of a piece of writing is the feeling the writer has created in it for the reader.
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symbolism |
Dickens uses symbolism at several points during his novella, including the horn of plenty and Ignorance and Want.
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parallelism |
Dickens creates parallelism to show how similar Scrooge and Marley are.
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microcosm |
A microcosm is a community, place, or situation regarded as encapsulating in miniature the characteristics of something much larger.
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macrocosm |
Macrocosm is the whole of a complex structure, especially the world or the universe, contrasted with a small or representative part of it.
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Malthusian |
Malthusian theory claims that the population will outgrow available resources, resulting in a surplus population.
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surplus |
Scrooge believed that people in poverty made up a 'surplus population'.
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juxtaposition |
Juxtaposition means ' putting next to'.
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antithesis |
Fred is the antithesis of Scrooge.
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clerk |
He was the office clerk.
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phantom |
Each phantom had more effect on Scrooge than the last.
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melancholy |
'Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern'.
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morose |
Morose means sullen and ill-tempered.
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charwoman |
Scrooge's charwoman stole his possessions after his death.
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solitude |
Solitude is different from loneliness.
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charity |
Many people donate generously to charity (especially around Christmas).
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spectre
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Spectre is another word for ghost.
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apparition |
The visitors reported seeing an apparition in the haunted house.
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jovial |
Mr Fezziwig was very jovial.
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