A Christmas Carol

Who says, "They cling to me...This boy is ignorance. This girl is want. Beware of them both"?

He had to go to debtor's prison because he could not pay his bills

Ghost of Christmas Present had a huge feast of food in front of him when Scrooge first saw him

How structure affects the reader's attitude

This is defined as "the feeling the reader gets from the story".

Speaker? "I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year."

"Fowls clucked and strutted in the stables"

"Clash, clash, hammer, ding, dong"

Scrooge's dead business partner

The overall use of language such as clinical, jargon, or slang

Speaker -"I wear the chain I forged in life. I make it link by link and yard by yard"

After Scrooge awakens from seeing three Spirits, he is too tired to get out of bed.

Facts that are included or omitted

Victorian way of publishing novels chapter by chapter in newspapers or magazines

"(the) bell was always peeping slyly down at Scrooge out of the gothic window" is an example of

"You travel fast? 'On the wings of the wind', replied the Ghost.

Vivid appeals to understanding through the senses, including descriptions and figures of speech

He threw a huge dancing party for his workers on Christmas Eve

Who is described as a "covetous old sinner"

Scrooge becomes a second father to Tiny Tim

Scrooge feared the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come least of all the spirits

This is defined as "the author's attitude toward the audience, the subject, or the character"

The author's choice of words and their connotations

"It was not an impenetrable shadow...like a bad lobster in a dark cellar."

The yard was so dark that even Scrooge...was fain to grope with his hands"

"a lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire...Scrooge sat down upon a form and wept"

"Conduct me where you will...Tonight, if you have aught to teach me, let me profit by it."

"Old Marley was as dead as a door nail"

What is the purpose of analyzing DIDLS?

"Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign..."

Mr. Fezziwig was Scrooge's clerk who asked for Christmas Day off.

He was conscious of a thousand odors connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys...

"I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off...until the master passion Gain engrosses you"

"I am much obliged to you.  I thank you fifty times."

Mrs. Dibler is the woman whom Scrooge loved as a young man

"the broad fields were so full of merry music that the crisp air laughed to hear it"

"I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel..."

lame, sickly boy; son of Bob Cratchet

"The specter...floated out upon the bleak, dark night"

Scrooge's clerk who asked for Christmas Day off

went to work in a shoe polishing factory when he was 12

novel published in 1843, written primarily to provide Dickens' family with income

Scrooge buys a huge turkey for his nephew at the end of the story

"The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water the comprehensive ocean of my business"