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Stave 3Reading skills: identifying details
Literary devices: humor, hyperbole,
foreshadowing, juxtaposition, personification
Literary Devices
• Purpose: To make story more
enjoyable
• To help you understand the story
• To make the story more powerful,
interesting and memorable
• For fun!
Details: picture the scene
• Scrooge’s room
• Cratchit women clothes
• Do now: sketch in your notes what one of
these scenes looks like. Imagine the colors.
Hyperbole (exaggeration)Humor
• It was a million degrees outside!
• Everyone in the stadium noticed
giant streamer of toilet paper, like a
banner behind an airplane, hanging
off my shoe.
• Scrooge’s fear on p. 81
Foreshadowing: a hint of what’s to come
• Had I known then what I know now, I
wouldn’t have been able to face the
day.
• “Bob’s voice. . . Trembled more when
he said that Tiny Tim was growing
strong and hearty.”
Juxtaposition: two things side by side making them both clearer
• Two people.
• Red next to green makes both
sharper.
• Mean Scrooge and kind Fred.
Personification: inanimate object with feelings; give ideas human
form
• The moon smiled down on the lovers.
Ignorance and Want
• The boy is Ignorance; the girl is Want
– the boy is more dangerous
• Why does Dickens believe this?
• What did he do in his life to fix
ignorance?
Review – Literary Devices
– Details
– Hyperbole
– Juxtapositon
– Personification
– Forshadowing
– Foil
Stave 3 “Team Talk” Questions
• 1. How is Scrooge’s room
transformed by the arrival of the
Ghost of Christmas Present?
• 2. What is a “twice-turned” gown?
What does it mean that Mrs. Cratchit
and her daughter are “brave” in
ribbons? What do these details
convey?
Stave 3 “Team Talk” Questions continued…
• 3. The Spirit reveals that Tiny Tim will die
“if these shadows remain unaltered by the
Future.” Why is Scrooge “overcome with
penitence and grief”?
• 4. According to Scooge’s nephew, Fred,
who always suffers from Scrooge’s “ill
whims”?
Stave 3 “Team Talk” Questions continued…
• 5.Humor in writing taps into the human
disposition to laugh at the ridiculous, the
ludicrous, and the comical. Hyperbole is
exaggeration used for humorous effect. How
does dickens use humor and hyperbole to help
the reader understand how frightened Scrooge
is of the second Spirit? Give me some SPECIFIC
examples from the TEXT.
“Team Talk”
• 7. Foreshadowing is ahunt or a clue an
author gives to suggest something that
may happen later in the story. What might
Dickens be foreshadowing in this passage:
“Bob’s voice…trembled more when he said
that Tiny Tim was growing strong and
hearty”?
“Team Talk”
• 8. Juxtaposition is the act of placing two things
side by side in order to make characteristics of
the two things more distinct. For example, Dicksn
juxtaposes the setting of black house fronts,
furrowed streets, gloom, dingy mist, and soot
with the cheerfulness of the people in the houses,
emphasizing the contrast. Find another example
of juxtaposition in Stave 3.
“Team Talk”• 10. Personification gives human form
to abstractions. How does Dickens
personify ignorance and want
(poverty and oppression) in Stave
Three? Why do you think he chooses
to personify these abstractions as he
does?
“Team Talk”Digging Deeper…
• 11. Of the Cratchit’s Christmas celebration, the
narrator states:
“There was nothing of high mark in this…But they were
happy, grateful, pleased with one another, and
contented with the time…”
Despite having barely enough to fill everyone at a meal,
every Cratchit is thankful and refrains from even hinting
that the pudding is small. Why do you think that is?
“Team Talk”
• Read Philippians 4:12-13. What does
Paul say is the “secret” of being
“content in any and every situation”?
“Team Talk”• 12. The Spirit takes Scrooge from place to place and
to many homes. What personal qualities or traits are
demonstrated for Scrooge through these encounters?
• Read Galatians 5:22-23. What are the fruits of the
Spirit listed in this passage? Compare this list to the
list you made in the previous question. What are their
similarities and differences?
• To what extent can we cultivate these qualities in
ourselves, and to what extent are they gifts from
God?
Comic Strip - Model• To keep track of the many places (at least 8,
some people count 10) the characters visit,
draw each scene (stick figures are fine, but
each “scene” needs to have details).
• Include the setting and the characters
• Label the scene (maybe you’re not a great
artist and I won’t be able to tell!)
• Fold your paper to make nice squares, use
pencil or colored pencil. No pens or markers.