Clockwork questions

From vocabulary.com.

• An optimist is someone who always sees the bright side of any situation.
• Pessimists always sees the worst in every thing.
• oscillate is when something moves back and forth in a steady motion.
• An engine needs each of its part to work. It has gears which have wheels. Each wheel has cogs.
• a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer used as an orchestral instrument
• A dynasty is a series of leaders in the same family, like the British Royal Family.
• Heir is a person who takes the family job from someone older.
• It is the look some one gives when they are angry.

2)Karl

• He is described as a selfish clockwork-maker.
• He thinks that none of his ideas on what to make for the clock tower were good.
• He acts selfishly.
• He changes and becomes more interesting and suspicious.
• Karl is a foil because he is in the same situation as Gretl but makes different decisions.example: he has to chose whether to do something good or bad.
• In the end of the story Karl dies.

Gretl

• She is described as a young and helpful girl.
• She thinks that she can help every one with their problems.
• She acts very caring and helpful.
• She becomes more and more noticeable as the story builds.
• She is a protagonist because she acts as a hero.
• In the end of the story she realizes that she can't help everyone with their problems.

Fritz

• He is described as a good but afraid writer
• He thinks that his story needs to be perfect from the start to the end.
• He acts very scared and amazed.
• He he becomes crazier as the story goes.
• He is a foil because he is in the same situation as Gretl but makes different decisions. example: he has to choose between good and bad.
• In the end he moves to another part of Germany.

3)pg16: by saying artistic temperament he means does not get on with the job and fusses about it. That it is not important and is a bit pointless, because of how he writes the rest of the chapter like it is nonsense and says"artistic temperament what nonsense there is no such thing  Only amateurs have temperaments. Real artists get on with the job and don't fuss about it."

4)pg49: Princess Mariposa stood at the palace window, she heard the chiming of the cathedral clock, and said “I wish I had a child as sound as a bell and as true as a clock”, and when she had said those words she felt her heart lift.

• as true as a clock Is a simile because it uses the word "as" and compares two things.
• She felt her heart lift her heart didn't really lift or she won't be alive. 

5)

• In the old days, when this story took place, time used to run by clockwork.
• His mainspring was bound to weaken, his escapement to become clogged with dust.
• Tick,tock,tick,tock! Bit by bit they move, and tick us steadily on towards our grave.
• Instead, there was a little piece of clockwork: just a few cogs and springs and a balance wheel, attached in subtle ways to the Princes veins and tick-tick-ticking away merrily, in perfect time to the lashing of his arm.
• Princess Mariposa stood at the palace window, she heard the chiming of the cathedral clock, and said “I wish I had a child as sound as a bell and as true as a clock”, and when she had said those words she felt her heart lift.

 6)  works like clockwork

• Whinds the reader. I think the author chose this because it makes the story interesting.
• keeps the reader ticking. I think the author chose this because it makes the story interesting, and makes the reader continue reading without stoping.

Does not work like clockwork

• The story does not work exactly as expected I think the author thinks by not making it completely like clockwork it will be more interesting.
• The story is not precise I think the author thinks by not making it completely like clockwork it will be more interesting, if he makes precise it will get very boring.

Scholarship jacket

The scholarship jacket is a realistic fiction and a coming of age story.

Realistic fiction;
Coming of age;

All summer in a day

All summer in a day a suspense, sci-fi and a coming of age story.

Suspense:

 She'd better hurry; we'll miss it!" 
This is suspense because  we don't know if the teacher will there in time.
"Behind the closet door was only silence."
Again this is suspense because you don't understand why it is silent. 

Coming of Age:

"They could not meet each other’s glances. Their faces were solemn and pale."

This is coming of age because they could not meet each other's glasses because they had realized what they had done wrong.
"Margot stood apart from them, from these children who could never remember a time when there wasn't rain and rain and rain"
This is coming of age because she was different but at the end the other realized that she was not so different and how cruel they were

Sci-fi:

"And this was the way life was forever on the planet Venus"
This is sci-fi because it is impossible and unreasonable to live in Venus.
"It had been raining for seven years"
This is sci-fi because it is impossible for it to rain for seven years.

This quote explain and prove how it is a suspense,sci-fi and a dimming of age story

List story

Raymond's run;                              Is realistic fiction and a coming of age story.

Scholarship jacket;                         Is realistic fiction and a coming of age story.

All summer in a day;                      Is suspense, sci-fi and a coming of age story.

The landlady;                                  Is realistic fiction, suspense and a mystery story.

Clockwork;                                     Is fantasy, suspense, mystery and a sci-fi story

Sound of thunder;                           Is a sci-fi and a suspense story.

The landlady

 The landlady is realistic fiction, suspense and a mystery story.

suspense;
“Oh, it’s the perfect age! Mr Mulholland was also seventeen. But I think he was a trifle shorter than you are, in fact I’m sure he was, and his teeth weren’t quite so white. You have the most beautiful teeth, MrWeaver, did you know that?”
This is a suspense quote because her knowing Weaver that much info how he looked how white his teeth how old he is while he is dead gets you on the edge of your seat
"His skin was just like a baby's"
This is a suspense quote because it gets you on the edge of your seat because we don't know why.
Realistic fiction;

Billy Weaver had travelled down from London on the slow afternoon train, with a change at Swindon on the way, and by the time he got to Bath it was about nine o’clock in the evening and the moon was coming up out of a clear starry sky over the houses opposite the station entrance. 
This is a realistic fiction a because London is a real place and Billy might be a real person and realistic fiction stories are mostly about places and people that are realistic.

Suddenly, in a downstairs window that was brilliantly illuminated by a street-lamp not six yards away, Billy caught sight of a printed notice propped up against the glass in one of the upper panes. 
This is realistic because in London their must be a plas like this where people come eat and sleep.

Mystery;
“You know something?” Billy said. ‘Something that’s really quite extraordinary about all this?”

This is a mystery because Billy's now trying to find out what the lady did, he is investigating.
“That parrot,” he said at last. “You know something?

 This is a mystery quote because Billy is trying to investigate.

This quotes indicate that this story is a mystery,realistic fiction and suspense story.

Raymond's run

Raymond's run is a realistic fiction and a coming of age story.

Coming of age;

“My brother Raymond a great runner in the family tradition”
This is a coming of age quote because squeaky learnt that Raymond can run really well and in the beginning she thought he was a slow couch, coming of age are stories about growing up by learning something.

“You got anything to say to my brother, you say it to me, Mary Louise Williams of Raggedy Town, Baltimore.” 
This is a coming of age quote because it is about growing up and coming of age stories are about that.

Realistic fiction;

“You signing up for the May Day races?” 
This quote is a Realisti fiction because May Day races are held in some countries(happens in real life)

“What grade you in now, Raymond?” 
This quote is realistic fiction because grades are things that have been held every year around the in American schools.

This quotes prove that this story is a coming of age and realistic fiction.

A sound of thunder

A Sound of Thunder is a Science Fiction and Suspense story.
"A real time Machine, makes you think"
A time machine is a technology of the future or a partially true scientific theory.
"He indicated a metal Path that struck off into green wilderness." The metal path is futuristic because it floats.
"We were fools to come. This is impossible." Eckels says this when the dinosaur is first seen. It creates suspense by making the reader feel what he feels.
" Does this Safari guarantee that I come back alive?"This quote at the beginning of the story creates suspense about what will happen.
" His face was numb, his mouth trembled." This is a reaction to the realization that the world has changed. We are in suspense because we can 'feel' his fear and we don't know how much has changed.
These quotes prove that the story is suspense and science fiction.

Perfectly Ella

Perfectly Ella is a realistic fiction and coming of age story.

This is a realistic fiction because Ella is a human and could actually exist because people have step moms and sisters, Ella is involved in events that could actually happen because her parents divorced.

It is coming of age because the main characters are young Ella is 11 and forced to make series of choices trying to make her two best friends friends events change their lives when she gives up on making her best friends friends.The main character Ella is in the middle of some thing she cannot understand why her best friends will not be friends.

Myth

"In the beginning Ngai, called Gikuyu the father of the tribe. Ngai gave Gikuyu a share of his land. Then Ngai went to stay on MT Kenya. 'One day He took Gikuyu on top of MT Kenya. He showed Gikuyu a spot in the centre of the country where there were many fig trees. Gikuyu saw that the land was very beautiful. And Ngai gave it to gikuyu, who named it Mukurwe wa Gathanga.

   Then Ngai said: 'You will at times be in need of my help, when the time arises,call me.
   there he found a beautiful woman who he married and had nine daughters. Gikuyu went to Ngai and asked for sons."Go, take a lamb and a kid. Kill these under the big fig tree near your home and the blood pour them on the trunk of the tree. Let the family make a big fire under the tree. The meat will burn as a sacrifice to Ngai take your wife and daughters home, go back alone to the tree There you will find nine men who are will marry your daughters. 

This is a myth because it has a God, portrays the refashion ship between Gods and humans and how Kenya came to be.

My story

Hare and tortoise

This story is about a hare who used annoy every one with his running so one day the tortoise challenged the hare to have a race and the hare agreed. So the tortoise called his cousins to help him with his plan. When the race started the hare was far ahead so he slept when he woke up the tortoise was ahead so he ran ahead of him and again he slept but this time when he woke up the tortoise was near the end the hare ran as fast as he could but The hare lost. The moral of the story is do not judge a book by its cover.

It is a fable because it has talking animals and a moral. Like when the tortoise challenged the hare.

Old school genre

Fable-http://fairytalesoftheworld.com/quick-reads/the-hare-and-the-tortoise-somalia/
Folk tale-http://www.storiestogrowby.com/stories/caterpillar_africa_masai.html
Fairy tale-http://www.fairy-tales.parnas.info/en/africa/tales-and-stories/fire-hill.html
Legend-http://allthingskenyan.com/history-lionlegend.html
Myth

Bonus questions

Anaphora is when the same word or phrase is used at the beginning series of sentence.
For example; sound of thunder.
                     TIME SAFARI, INC.SAFARIS TO ANY YEAR IN THE PAST.YOU NAME THE ANIMAL.WE TAKE YOU THERE.YOU SHOOT IT.   

Metaphor; computers at school are old dinasours.
                  Donations for the popular charity were a tsunami.
Simile the house was as clean as a whistle.
            The contract is as solid as the ground we stand on.

The sign on the wall symbolizes the company.TIME SAFARI, INC.SAFARIS TO ANY YEAR IN THE PAST.YOU NAME THE ANIMAL.WE TAKE YOU THERE.YOU SHOOT IT.

1,2,3 questions

1)Through out the story it inferes the dinasour. At the end it inferes death.
2)it came on a great oiled, resilient, striding legs. It towered thirty feet above half of the trees, a great evil god, folding its delicate watchmaker's claws close to its oily reptilian chest. Each lower leg was a piston, a thousand pounds of white bone, sunk in thick ropes of muscle, sheathed over in a gleam of pebbled skin like the mail of a terrible warrior. Each thigh was a ton of meat, ivory, and steel mesh. And from the great breathing cage of the upper body those two delicate arms dangled out front, arms with hands which might pick up and examine men like toys, while the snake neck coiled. And the head itself, a ton of sculptured stone, lifted easily upon the sky. Its mouth gaped, exposing a fence of teeth like daggers. Its eyes rolled, ostrich eggs, empty of all expression save hunger. It closed its mouth in a death grin. It ran, its pelvic bones crushing aside trees and bushes, its taloned feet clawing damp earth, leaving prints six inches deep wherever it settled its weight.

gleam of pebble skin tells the reader that it had rough skin and is an example of touch.
Eyes rolled ostrich eggs tells the reader that it's eyes were as big as ostrich eggs and is an example of sight.
And from great breathing cage of the upper body tells the reader how you would feel if you were in front of a dinosaur your self and is an example of touch and smell.
3) If you disobey instructions, there's a stiff penalty of another ten thousand dollars, plus possible government action, on your return."this fore shadows that someone will do something wrong.

We're lucky. If Deutscher had gotten in, we'd have the worst kind of dictatorship. There's an anti everything man for you, a militarist, anti-Christ, anti-human, anti-intellectual. People called us up, you know, joking but not joking. Said if Deutscher became President they wanted to go live in 1492.this foreshadows that at the end Deutscher will win the elections

Put your first two shots into the eyes, if you can, blind them, and go back into the brain."This inferences that they will shoot the dinasour successfully.

Christ isn't born yet," said Travis, "Moses has not gone to the mountains to talk with God. The Pyramids are still in the earth, waiting to be cut out and put up. Remember that. Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler-none of them exists." The man noddedThis inferences that none of this people will exist at the end.

"It can't be killed," Eckels pronounced this verdict quietly, as if there could be no argument. He had weighed the evidence and this was his considered opinion. The rifle in his hands seemed a cap gun. "We were fools to come. This is impossible."This inferences that eckeles will do something wrong that he will alway regret.

Genres

autobiography
mystery
realistic fiction
folk tale
newspaper
play
biography
history
reference
historical
Information
fantasy
poem
fantasy fiction
Science fiction

Sound of thunder comprehension questions.

1)there's a stiff penalty of another ten thousand dollars, plus possible government action.
2)If Deutscher had gotten in, we'd have the worst kind of dictatorship because he is not a fine president.
3)the best way was to shoot their eyes make them blind.
4) sixty million two thousand and fifty-five years before President Keith.

5)they would destroy the future.

6)they took their clothes off and left them in the time machine which went back.

7)so that they do not leave the bacteria from the future their.

8)it was alive, in the past and it was thirty feet above.

9)aimed randomly.

10) why

11)It had a Red Cross.

12)cuts out the bullets

13)He returned, shuddering, five minutes later, his arms soaked and red to the elbows. He held out his hands. Each held a number of steel bullets. Then he fell. He lay where he fell, not moving.

14)it is different.

At The beginning:TIME SAFARI, INC.SAFARIS TO ANY YEAR IN THE PAST.YOU NAME THE ANIMAL.WE TAKE YOU THERE.YOU SHOOT IT.

In the end:TYME SEFARI INC.SEFARI TU ANY YEER EN THE PAST.YU NAIM THE ANIMALL.

WEE TAEK YU THAIR.YU SHOOT ITT.

15)dead butterfly.

Figurative language

Imagery is when you describe some thing using the 5 senses.
metaphor is when you transfer a quality from one thing to another.
      The big kids call me Mercury cause I am the swiftest thing in the neighborhood.
       Computers are complicated idiots.
       Your friend is a big baby.
        The girl is a walking dictionary.
         He has a heart of a lion.
mercury: planet
               metal
               God
Simile is when you compar things that are the same using "like" or "as".
The frog's eyes sparkled like diamond.
As busy as a bee.
As strong as a bull.
As angry as a hornet.
As beautiful as a peacock.
The pencil was as sharp as a pin.
Symbols something that represent something else.
Apple logo.
Panda.
Nike logo.
Windows logo.
Batmans logo.
Macdonolds logo.
Twitter logo.
CBC.
Toyota.
 shevalay.
Olympic organization .
NPA.
PBS.
Shell.

Questions to Raymond's run

2.a)squeaky is more responsible that Raymond because most people call squeaky Raymond's big sister.
   b)squeaky and Gretchen are going to be friends because at the end of the race Gretchen congratulated squeaky.

3)she is described as a
~helpful;in the story they say that she takes care of her brother.
~young;in the story they say she is called squeaky because of her squeaky voice.
~Fast runner;in the story the neighborhood kid call her Mercury because she is the swiftest thing in the neighborhood.

4)And I don’t have to earn my pocket money by hustling; George runs errands for the big boys and sells Christmas cards.this tells us that Raymond is older than squeaky and that he does some work in house and he is a good runner.

 

2 word list Raymond's run

* Rowdy,noisy

            Parkees unfolding chairs and chasing the rowdy kids from Lenox as if they had no right to be there.

*Periscope,microscope
                 He looks around the park for Gretchen like a periscope in a submarine movie.

*Prodigy,sensational 

*Signify,stand for
            “I don’t think you’re going to win this time ,” says Rosie, trying to signify with her hands on her hips all salty, completely forgetting that I have whupped her behind many times for less salt than that.

*Corsage,posy

*Spiel,line of gab

*Hustle,fuss
            And I don’t have to earn my pocket m one by hustling; George runs errands for the big boys and sells Christmas card
*Ventriloquist,entertainer

*Jam-packed,filled
             The park is jam-packed.

*Squint,squinch

*Chit-chat,talk
              I don't have time for chit-chat.

*Quicksilver,swiftly

Raymonds run words

1. Signify, mean
                Denote,canote. In BISB the colour of your tie signifys your house team.
2. Prefer, favor
                Like better, value more highly. I prefer dark colors instead of bright colour in winter.
3. Hustle, fuss
                Move or caused to move energycally or busily. The graduate hustled through the crowd to see how he did.
4. periscope, microscope
                An instrument providing a view of an obstructed field. I used to have a periscope but it broke.
5.static,still
                Not in physical mosition. I remained static in surprise.
6.rowdy,raucous
              Disturbing the public peace loud and rough. I was very rowdy when I won.
7.slosh,splash
               spill or splash copiously clumsy. Splash shlosh she swam in the deep swimming pool.
8.uptight,nervy
               Being in a tense state. She was uptight when she had a fight.
Glockenspiel,orchestral bells
                A percussion instrument consisting of a set of metal bars. A glockenspiel is a lively instrument.
             

             

Questions to the landlady

1)Foreshadowing: is a sign or warning of what is going come in the future. The author of a novel might use foreshadowing in the early chapter of his book to give readers some more information.

2)The difference is that foreshadowing is what is going to happen in the future whilst inference is an idea or conclusion backed on the evidence, they are all backed on the evidence,It was fantastically cheap. It was less than half of what he had been willing to pay.

3)Swampy:it was obvious that once upon a time they had been very swampy.the lady on the street was very swampy.Congenial: a pub will be more congenial than a boarding house.it was very congenial that the neighborhood had agreed to help.
Rapacious:rapacious landladies.
Dither: after dithering around like this in the cold for two or three minutes. After all that dithering I had decided what to do about the situation.
Compelling:holding him,compelling him,forcing him to stay. The red gown was very compelling that I bought it.
Compulsion:the compulsion or more accurately the desire to follow after her. She hard a lot of compulsion on going to the cinema.
Dotty:the old girl is slightly dotty. I am very dotty on what movie to watch.
Dainty:dear me she said shaking her head and heaving a dainty little sigh. She looks dainty in that summer dress.Tantalizing:there is nothing more tantalizing than a thing like this, Caroline is a very tantalizing movie and book.
Linger: that lingers just outside the boarders of ones' memory the memory of his pet alway lingered.
Emanate: he caught a whiff of a peculiar smell that seemed to emanate directly from a person. His crab emanated from the desert.
Malevolent: he was being malevolent when he cursed her
Naive:most teenager's are naive
Gullible: you are very gullible
Beguiling: the beautiful actress is very Beguling.

4)the name it self conjured up images of watery cabbage and rapacious landladies and a powerful smell of kippers in the living room smell,sight.
But the air was deadly cold and the wind was like a flat blade of ice on his cheeks touch.

5)She wanted to stuff Billy,like the others.
Examples:1)it is very cheap she makes cheap so that he could agree because she wanted to stuff him she made it cheap.
                 2)when she asked how old he was she said he was the perfect age. Because she wanted to know what kind of person she was dealing with

6)suspense or mystery at the end we are not told what happens next because of the boy who was I the headlines died at the age of 17 but his I guess diary was in that house.

7)the woman must have put poison that smelt like almond in Billy's meal. the woman smell like a hospital so she was ready to stuff Billy because it might have smelt a bit like almond.


8)it would is good I like the ending the writer does not tell us who will die who will go to jail (what will happen next) because it gives you time to guess what will happen next in the next story