1. “Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind- stone, Scrooge!”
LEARN IT:
“Oh!  But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind- stone, Scrooge!”
Technique: METAPHOR (AO2 Language)
From: Narrator, Stave One

2. LEARN IT:
“a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!” 
Technique: DYNAMIC VERBS, PRESENT PARTICIPLE (AO2 Language)
From: Narrator, Stave One

3. LEARN IT:
“Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.” 
Technique: DYNAMIC VERBS, PRESENT PARTICIPLE (AO2 Language)
From: Narrator, Stave One

4. LEARN IT:
“No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.” 
Technique: PATHETIC FALLACY (AO2 Language)
From: Narrator, Stave One

5. LEARN IT:
“Every idiot who goes about with “Merry Christmas” on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.”
Technique: EMOTIVE Language, HYPERBOLE (AO2 Language)
From: Scrooge, Stave One

6. “Are there no prisons?” LEARN IT:
Technique: INTERROGATIVE (AO2 Language)
FORESHADOWING (AO2 Structure)
From: Scrooge, Stave One

7. “I can’t afford to make idle people merry.”
LEARN IT:
“I can’t afford to make idle people merry.”
Technique: JUXTAPOSITION (AO2 Structure)
From: Scrooge, Stave One

8. LEARN IT:
“A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty-fifth of December.”
Technique: METAPHOR (AO2 Language)
From: Scrooge, Stave One

9. LEARN IT:
“The chain he drew was clasped about his middle.  It was long, and wound about him like a tail”
Technique: DYNAMIC VERB, SIMILE (AO2 Language)
From: Narrator, Stave One

10. LEARN IT:
“I am here tonight to warn you that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate”
Technique: EMOTIVE Language (AO2 Language)
JUXTAPOSITION (AO2 Structure)
From: Marley’s Ghost, Stave One

11. LEARN IT:
“It was a strange figure - like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man”
Technique: SIMILE (AO2 Language)
JUXTAPOSITION (AO2 Structure)
From: Narrator, Stave Two

12. LEARN IT:
“It was a strange figure - like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man”
Technique: SIMILE (AO2 Language)
JUXTAPOSITION (AO2 Structure)
From: Narrator, Stave Two

13. "A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still."
LEARN IT:
"A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still."
Technique: EMOTIVE Language (AO2 Language)
From: The Ghost of Christmas Past, Stave Two

14. LEARN IT:
"Father is so much kinder than he used to be, that home’s like Heaven! "
Technique: SIMILE (AO2 Language)
DIALOGUE (AO2 Form)
From: Fan, Stave Two

15. LEARN IT:
" There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night, I should have given him something that’s all”
Technique: EXCLAMATION (AO2 Language)
REFERENCE TO STAVE ONE (AO2 Structure)
DIALOGUE (AO2 Form)
From: Scrooge, Stave Two

16. " Another idol has displaced me... A golden one”
LEARN IT:
" Another idol has displaced me... A golden one”
Technique: METAPHOR (AO2 Language)
DIALOGUE (AO2 Form)
From: Belle, Stave Two

17. LEARN IT:
“free as its genial face, its sparkling eye, its open hand, its cheery voice, its unconstrained demeanour, and its joyful air”.
Technique: POSITIVE ADJECTIVES (AO2 Language)
From: Narrator, Stave Two

18. LEARN IT:
“Nobody said or thought it was at all a small pudding for a large family. It would have been flat heresy to do so.”
Technique: JUXTAPOSITION (AO2 Structure)
From: Narrator, Stave Three

19. “If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.”
LEARN IT:
“If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.”
Technique: EMOTIVE Language (AO2 Language)
JUXTAPOSITION (AO2 Structure)
DIALOGUE (AO2 Form)
From: The Ghost of Christmas Present, Stave Three

20. “If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.”
LEARN IT:
“If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.”
Technique: EMOTIVE Language (AO2 Language)
JUXTAPOSITION (AO2 Structure)
DIALOGUE (AO2 Form)
From: The Ghost of Christmas Present, Stave Three

21. “I’ll give you Mr Scrooge, the Founder of the Feast”
LEARN IT:
“I’ll give you Mr Scrooge, the Founder of the Feast”
Technique: ALLITERATION (AO2 Language)
DIALOGUE (AO2 Form)
From: Bob Cratchit, Stave Three

22. LEARN IT:
“They were happy, grateful, pleased with one another and contented with the time.”
Technique: POSITIVE SEMANTIC FIELD (AO2 Language)
From: Narrator, Stave Three

23. LEARN IT:
“I mean to give him the same chance every year whether he likes it or not”
Technique: ADJECTIVE, DETERMINER (AO2 Language)
DIALOGUE (AO2 Form)
From: Fred, Stave Three

24. “Two children; wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable”
LEARN IT:
“Two children; wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable”
Technique: NEGATIVE ADJECTIVES (AO2 Language)
From: The Ghost of Christmas Present, Stave Three

25. “This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both”
LEARN IT:
“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both”
Technique: PERSONIFICATION, IMPERATIVE (AO2 Language)
DIALOGUE (AO2 Form)
From: The Ghost of Christmas Present, Stave Three

26. “The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached”
LEARN IT:
“The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached”
Technique: ADVERBS (AO2 Language)
FORESHADOWING (AO2 Structure)
From: Narrator, Stave Four

27. "Scrooge listened to this dialogue with horror”
LEARN IT:
"Scrooge listened to this dialogue with horror”
Technique: NEGATIVE ADJECTIVE (AO2 Language)
From: Narrator, Stave Four

28. LEARN IT:
“On it, plundered and bereft, unwatched, unwept, uncared for, was the body of this man”
Technique: NEGATIVE SEMANTIC FILED (AO2 Language)
From: Narrator, Stave Four

29. LEARN IT:
“Are these the shadows of the things that Will be or are they shadows of things that May be, only?”
Technique: ADVERBS (AO2 Language)
FORESHADOWING (AO2 Structure)
DIALOGUE (AO2 Form)
From: Scrooge, Stave Four

30. “I am not the man I was!” LEARN IT:
Technique: REFERENCE TO START OF NOVEL (AO2 Structure)
DIALOGUE (AO2 Form)
From: Scrooge, Stave Four

31. LEARN IT:
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present and the Future”
Technique: METAPHOR, RULE OF THREE (AO2 Language)
FORESHADOWING (AO2 Structure)
From: Scrooge, Stave Four

32. LEARN IT:
“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy, I am as giddy as a drunken man”
Technique: SIMILE (AO2 Language)
DIALOGUE (AO2 Form)
From: Scrooge, Stave Five

33. LEARN IT:
“I’ll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your struggling family”
Technique: POSITIVE VERB CHOICE (AO2 Language)
DIALOGUE (AO2 Form)
From: Scrooge, Stave Five

34. “And so as Tiny Tim observed “God bless Us. Every One!”
LEARN IT:
“And so as Tiny Tim observed “God bless Us. Every One!”
Technique: IMPERATIVE (AO2 Language)
From: Narrator, Stave Five