Vocabulary

Character Quote Identification

Figures of Speech Identification

Hodge Podge/ Capitalization

Character Quote Identification

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1-100 A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, ______eagerly desiring old sinner!

1-100A What is covetous?

1-200 “Hallo!” growled Scrooge, in his accustomed voice as near as he could pretend or fake it.

1-200A What is “fain”?

1-300 Scrooge rose; but finding the spirit made toward the window, clasped his robe in humble prayer or petition.

1-300A What is supplication?

1-400 You have labored on it since (7 years). It is a heavy or massive chain!

1-400A What is ponderous?

1-500 Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with regret for one’s wrongdoing and grief.

1-500A What is penitence?

There were great, round, pot-bellied baskets of chestnuts, shaped like waistcoats of jolly old men….tumbling out into the street in their apoplectic affluence or extreme wealth.

2-100A What is opulence?

2-200 To cast face down in humility, submission, or adoration.

2-200A What is “prostate”?

2-300 Something thought to be true

2-300A What is a “supposition”?

2-400 a. Gruel b. Avarice

2-400A What is: a. A lightly-cooked cereal b. Insatiable greed for riches?

2-500 a.Sarcastic, biting, can burn tissue by chemical reaction b. An elf or goblin

2-500A What is: a. Caustic b. Hob ?

“It was a strange figure – like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man” Who is this?

3-100A Who is the Ghost of Christmas Past ?

3-200 "Why, it isn't possible,“ said ______, "that I can have slept through a whole day and far into another night. It isn't possible that anything has happened to the sun, and this is twelve at noon."

3-200A Who is Scrooge?

3-300 “God bless us every one!: said ______, the last of all.

3-300A Who is Tiny Tim ?

3-400 “Why bless my soul!” cried _____. “who’s that?”

3-400A Who is Fred ?

3-500 “A positive light appeared to issue from ________ calves. They shone in every part of the dance like moons.”

3-500A Who is Fezziwig?

It was a strange figure – like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man Identify Figurative Language

4-100A What is a simile?

4-200 a.Marley was dead as a door nail. b. You’re particular to a shade.

4-200A What are: a.Simile b. Pun ?

4-300 In came a fiddler with a music-book, and went up to the lofty desk, and made an orchestra of it, and tuned like fifty stomach-aches. Identify Figurative Language

4-300A What is a simile?

“As good as gold,” said Bob Cratchit, “and better. Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard.”

4-400A What is: A simile ?

4-500 “I wear the chain I forged in life,…” “Mankind was my business”

4-500A What are metaphors?

Why does Scrooge like darkness? a.It helps him sleep. b.It helps him to forget his past. c. It hides the ghosts from his eyes. d. It is cheap.

5-100A Why does Scrooge like darkness? a.It helps him sleep. b.It helps him to forget his past. c. It hides the ghosts from his eyes. d. It is cheap.

5-200 “He said that Christmas was a humbug, as I live! cried ________. “He believed it, too!” Quote ID: a. Whom said? b. To Whom?

5-200A “He said that Christmas was a humbug, as I live! cried ________. “He believed it, too!” Quote ID: a. Whom said? Fred b. To Whom? Friends at Dinner

5-300 a. Touch my robe!” b. “The Founder of the Feast indeed!”, ______ said. Quotes ID: Said by whom?

5-300A a. Touch my robe!” b. “The Founder of the Feast indeed!”, ______ said. Quotes ID: a.Ghost of Christmas Present b. Bob Cratchit’s wife

5-400 One of the missions sits atop a sandstone mesa in valencia county, new mexico Capitalization Errors??

5-400A What is: A.Valencia County, B. New Mexico ?

5-500 I don’t have plans for new year’s eve yet, but i know where i’ll be on new year’s day. Capitalization Errors??

5-500A What is: a.N ew Year’s Eve b. I c. I’ll d. New Year’s Day ?

"Leave me! Take me back. Haunt me no longer!"

6-100A Who is Scrooge?

6-200 “Business!” cried ______, wringing its hands. “Mankind was my business.”

6-200A Who is Jacob Marley?

6-300 "Why! Is it not! He has spent but a few pounds of your mortal money: three or four perhaps. Is that so much that he deserves this praise?"

6-300A Who is The Ghost of Christmas Past ?

6-400 “ What has he done with his money?”

6-400A Who is one of the men from the Stock Market discussing Scrooge’s death?

6-500 a. “…we should make some provision for the destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time.” b. "What Idol has displaced you?" _____ returned.

6-500A Who are: a.The two portly men b. Scrooge ?

Name three specific changes in Scrooge after his visits with the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. *Include example of the change*

What is: 1.Generosity with a raise for Bob Cratchit, buying theGenerosity with a raise for Bob Cratchit, buying the turkey for the Cratchit family, donating money to the portly men 2. Kindness with his offering of money and food help to the Cratchits, or paying for a taxi to take the boy to the Cratchit household 3. Pity towards mankind when he sees the dead person being taken advantage of. 4.Lovingness towards Fred’s and the Cratchit families.Lovingness towards Fred’s and the Cratchit families. 5.Playfulness with playing the prank on Bob.Playfulness with playing the prank on Bob. 6.Happiness as Scrooge shouts “Merry Christmas!” in the streets.Happiness as Scrooge shouts “Merry Christmas!” in the streets.

Daily Double Round 1