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Flashcards in Stave 2 Deck (5)
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1
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‘It was a strange figure- like a child’

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This simile gives a vulnerability to the ghost.

2
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‘He (Scrooge) was conscious of a thousand odours floating in the air’

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The sense of smell is evoked to bring back the past. The sense of sight is evoked when he sees all the people he remembers.

3
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‘So full of merry music that the crisp air laughed to hear it.’

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Personification of the air emphasises the feeling of happiness linked to the past when Scrooge was a boy.

4
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‘I should like to have given him something.’

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Shows Scrooge already feels remorse for how he treated the carol singer in stave 1 and is already slowly beginning to change.

5
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‘his calves shone like moons’

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The simile giving his dancing a magical feel shows how energetic and happy Fezziwig is.