Flint:

Hard and sharp:

“Hard and sharp as

flint, from which
no steel had ever
struck out
generous fire;”

Generous fire:
Secret, and self- Oyster:
contained:

“Secret, and self-

contained, and
solitary as an oyster.”

Solitary:
Frosty: (Metaphor)

“A frosty rime was on his

head, and on his
eyebrows, and his wiry
chin. He carried his own
low temperature always
about with him”

Carried his own low

temperature:
 Warmth: (symbolism)

“No warmth could

warm, no wintry
weather chill him”

Warmth and cold:

(symbolism)
 Cold: (mood/
atmosphere)

“It was cold, bleak,

biting weather: foggy
withal”

Foggy: (symbolic of…)

Fire: (Symbolism)

“Scrooge had a very

small fire, but the
clerk’s fire was so very
much smaller that it
looked like one coal.”
Glow: (Suggests
what?)

“He was all in a glow;

his face was ruddy
and handsome; his
eyes sparkled, and his
breath smoked.”
Good: (Meaning
according to Fred)

“I believe that it has

done me good, and
will do me good; and I
say, God bless it!”
Good:

“Let me leave it alone,

then,” said Scrooge.
“Much good may it do
you! Much good it has
ever done you!”
Tightfisted: Grindstone:
-greedy -(literal) a device
-Not willing to let that sharpens knives
go of his money or -(figurative) hard or
possessions painful work
"But he was a tight-
fisted hand at the
grindstone, Scrooge!" 

Hand at the…:
Meaning:
-controlling the…
-Scrooge is a
(grindstone)
greedy man who
-making other
forces people to
people use the
work long hours
(grindstone)
and suffer