Words and Ideas from ‘Christmas Carol’ Reminder for technical accuracy 25 minutes 250 words Metaphor A short sentence An exclamation mark Ellipsis A complex sentence You have just met Scrooge. Write a diary entry reflecting upon your meeting and explaining your initial impressions. Words and Ideas from ‘Christmas Carol’ ‘hard and sharp as flint’ ‘solitary as an oyster’ ‘secret and self contained’ ‘a covetous old sinner’ ‘his thin lips blue’ ‘spoke out shrewdly’ Reminder for technical accuracy Remember to paragraph your work. Use full stops and capital letters. Try to use ambitious vocabulary. INCLUDE: Protagonist (the leading character or one of the major characters in a book)