- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
