Clockwork stuff

Optimist: is someone who always sees the bright side of any situation

I think my mum is optimistic because she is always happy when something is bad.

Pessimist: they always see the worst.

When we were in a meeting krys was pessimistic since he was talking about bad things.

Oscillate: it moves back and forth in a steady motion.

When I came in the room it was cold that's was when I realised the fan was oscillating.

Cog: An engine needs each of its part to work. It has gears which have wheels. 

The cog rotated by itself, it did not rotated, then both rotated and it worked.

Dynasty: is a series of leaders in the same family

The Chinese dynasty is very important, without them the world would be trouble.

Heir: If your grandfather leaves his candy factory to in his will, you are the heir.

The heir to my family is me becuase I found my grandpa will and it was to me.

Glower: it's to stare angrily.

When I looked at Christopher he glowerd becuase I got a higher mark in maths.

2. How they are described

Gretl: Hard-working pg12 Gretl the little barmaid, the landlords daughter, was hurrying to and fro with foaming mugs and steaming plates. She is moving around so she is working hard

Karl: anxious pg12 "He's anxious about tormorrow. It say that he is anxious.

Fritz: Good writer pg15 They all enjoyed ghost stories,and Fritz's in particular, for he was a talented storyteller. He is a good writer if every body likes his work.

How do they think

Gretl: bravely pg84 The higher she climbed. This is brave because she is going up.

Karl: Worryied to face the people pg17 I can not face them. He is scared to,see people.

Fritz: Creatively I am looking forward to this  lesson.

How they act:

Gretl: Bravely pg 83 she kept on climbing up

Karl: Worryingly. Pg16 put poison in it

Fritz: Scaredly pg92 he had fled to another part of Germany 

How they change

Gretl: Braver pg83 she ran to the dark tower

Karl: Greedly pg36 He ask for a figure for the clock

Fritz: Cowardly pg92 Fritz left town

There role in the story:

Gretl: To share a heart. Pg92 she had lost her heart and kept it too

Karl: To make a figure pg17 I haven't made a figure 

Fritz: To write a story. Pg15 Fritz in particular 

What happens at the end of the story.

Gretl: she shared her heart pg92 she lost her heart and kept it to.

Fritz: he left pg92 He left the town

Karl: he died pg83 he lay dead beside him

3. The authors thinks a artistic temperant is a waste of time.

4. The phrase in the sentence ' as sound as a bell', it means somebody is healthy

    The phrase in the sentence ' as true as a clock' , it means somebody is perfect

    The metaphor is her heart lift, this means she was sad.

5. The beginning:(pg 8) If you play with it carelessly it'll sping up and strike at you like a snake and put out your eye.- This is a simile because it says like a snake.

     The beg/mid: (pg25) Instead there was a little piece of clockwork:just a few dogs and springs and a balance wheel, attached in subtle ways to the prince veins a tick-tick-ticking away merrily in perfect time with the lashing of his arms.- This is onamatapeia because it says tick tick.

     The middle: (pg54) "can't you just wind him up." This is speech because it is someone talking.

     The mid/end: (pg83) The higher she climbed, the more noise the clock made: a ticking and a tocking, a clicking and a creaking,whirring and a rumbling.mThis is onamatapeia becuase it makes clock noises.

     The end: (pg91) 'It's full of miscellaneous bits and pieces, and they're not even connected up properly: broken springs, wheels with cogs missing, rusty gear- worthless rubbish, all of it. -This is a list of stuff in clockwork because it says cogs, rusty gears and rubbish.

Bonus 

The way it is like a clock since the book goes forward and a clock goes forward.

It is full of clock parts and a clock is full of clock parts.

The scholarship jacket

The scholarship jacket is coming of age and realistic fiction.

Coming of age

“So if you are unable to pay the fifteen dollars for the jacket it will be given to the next one in line.” This is coming of age becuase she needs to make a choice if she will pay or if she will not pay for the jacket.

I was fourteen and in the eighth grade. This is coming of age because in coming of age there are young people in this story there is young people.  

Realistic fiction 

 In May, close to graduation, spring fever had struck as usual with a vengeance.  This is realistic fiction because in all schools you graduate and this is event that could happen in a school.

The small Texas school that I went , this is realistic fiction because Texas is a modern place.

 

Raymond's run

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

 

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

Realistic Fiction:

➖After that is the forty-yard dash which I used to run when I was in first grade.

This is because the forty-yard dash is an event that could actually happen.

➖Every time, just before I take off in a race, I always feel like I’m in a dream, the kind of dream you have when you’re sick with fever and feel all hot and weightless.

Because if you're sick and have a fever its most likely you are human.

Coming of age:

➖After that is the forty-yard dash which I used to run when I was in first grade.

Because she's  in first grade so she must be young.

➖my brother Raymond, a great runner in the family tradition.

This is a coming of age because she only realizes at the end that Raymond in a great runner.

Fable

There was a man called lisheng. He just married a beautiful woman. One day she wanted a coat made out of fox skin. So the man went down to buy one, however it was too expensive. So he told her and she forced him to walk in the hillside. When he was there he saw a fox. He caught it and ask for a sheet of its skin. The fox was shocked by the request. But she told him that it was easy, but first you need to let go of my tail so I can claw it of. So he let her tail go and the fox ran away in to the forest

This is a fable because there is the animal, the fox and she teaches him that it is very hard to go against your own will.

Sound of thunder

1.  If you disobey instructions, there's a stiff penalty of another ten thousand dollars, plus possible government action, on your return."
2.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.
3. To shoot it in the eyes so it is blind and then shoot the brain.
4. 60 million years two hundred thousand and fifty-five years.
5. It is a path that's hovers they need it because if they stand on a blade of grass it could change the future.
6.your clothing and bodies, were sterilized. This is so they can not let bacteria into the atmosphere.
7. We wear these oxygen helmets so we can't introduce our bacteria into an ancient atmosphere." They wear oxygen masks so they can not let bacteria into the atmosphere.
8. They have already died in the future.
9. Aimed at a random animal.
10. "Why, why," Eckels twitched his mouth. "It could reach up and grab the moon." That is what she says.
11. If it has red paint on it.
12.  When the dinosaur is dead they cut out the bullets.
13. Stick his arms to his elbows in the t-Rex mouth.
14. It is similar but in a different language.
15. A dead butterfly.

Extension 

1. Thing thing that infered the sound of thunder in the story was the dinosaur voice. The thing that infered it at the end was the gunshot. He did not move. Eyes shut, he waited, shivering. He heard Travis breathe loud in the room; he heard Travis shift his rifle, click the safety catch, and raise the weapon. This was the sound of thunder.

2. The Monster, at the first motion, lunged forward with a terrible scream. It covered one hundred yards in six seconds. The rifles jerked up and blazed fire. A windstorm from the beast's mouth engulfed them in the stench of slime and old blood. The Monster roared, teeth glittering with sun.

The rifles cracked again, Their sound was lost in shriek and lizard thunder. The great level of the reptile's tail swung up, lashed sideways. Trees exploded in clouds of leaf and branch. The Monster twitched its jeweler's hands down to fondle at the men, to twist them in half, to crush them like berries, to cram them into its teeth and its screaming throat. Its boulderstone eyes leveled with the men. They saw themselves mirrored. They fired at the metallic eyelids and the blazing black iris,

 First example:The Monster, at the first motion, lunged forward with a terrible scream. This is auditory imagery because you can hear the scream.

Second example: The rifles cracked again, Their sound was lost in shriek and lizard thunder.  This is also auditory imagery because you here the rifles crack and you can hear the lizard roar.

Third example: They fired at the metallic eyelids and the blazing black iris. This is visual imagery because you see the metallic eyelids and the blazing black iris.
  3. "Does this safari guarantee I come back alive?"We guarantee nothing," said the official, "except the dinosaurs." This foreshadows that they might not come back alive. 

"Makes you think, If the election had gone badly yesterday, I might be here now running away from the results. This foreshadows that when they come back the elections would have gone bad.

So be careful. Stay on the Path. Never step off!" This foreshadows somebody will go off the path.

Can these guns get a dinosaur cold?" Eckels felt his mouth saying. This foreshadows that when they  shoot the dinosaur it will not die.

Metaphor: to transfer a quality from one thing to another.
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.

Anaphora
A the same word that's is used at the start of a series of sentences

anti-Christ, anti-human, anti-intellectual.

Symbolism 

Something that represents something.

The gun represents hunting

Simile
Comparing two things using like or as. 

pebbled skin like the mail of a terrible warrior.

Figurative language

Figurative Language

Metaphor is transferring a quality or a characteristic from one thing to another.
Examples:
The team lost, it was a slaughter
The all black's line was a brick wall.

Simile is a comparison ( the things that are the same ) using like or as.

When I saw the ghost I was so scared it was like I was stuck to the ground.
Then when it came closer to me and I was shivering like I was in Antartica.
The floor that I was standing on was like ice.
He swam as quick as a shark when in the swimming race.
His brain was like a calculator because he could calculate in a blink of a eye.

Words

Signify: To tell him that he was going to die he had to signify with his hands.
Synonyms: signal.    Meaning : enote or connote
Prefer:  I prefer chocolate ice cream to vanilla ice cream because it is very tastier.
Synonyms: rather
Hustle: We need to hustle or the teachers will finds and give us tons of homework.
Synonyms: jostle
Periscope: He use a periscope to search for Tom in the tall grass.
Synonyms: radar  meaning: an instrument providing a view of an obstructed field
Static: I love it when I rub a ballon on my head and then sticking to my head because I like the feeling of static electricity.
Synonyms: unchanged
Rowdy: I hate chasing the rowdy kids around the park because I always run out of energy.
Synonyms: riotous.  meaning: disturbing the public peace; loud and rough
Slosh: "No!"I screamed as the tea sloshed out of the cup.
Synonyms: splash
Uptight: I was uptight when I lined up waiting to get my result from the test.
Synonyms: uneasy
Glockenspiel: Loads of people in my class a very good at playing the glockenspiel however I am not.
Synonyms: angelus
Prodigy: I think some people are very lucky because they are prodigy.
Synonyms: genius      Meaning: an unusually gifted or intelligent person
Corsage: I like giving corsage as a present because they are pretty and cheap.
Synonyms: garland
Spiel: when ever we are in trouble  Ben has to spiel.
Synonyms: jabber
Liable: both of the books were liable and interesting.
Synonyms: accountable
Ventriloquist: the ventriloquist voice made everyone laugh.
Synonyms: artist
Jam-packed: when I looked at the cupboard it was jam-packed with food.
Synonyms: filled
Squint: when we opened the door we ran forward but we had to squint our eyes.
Synonyms: peek
Chit-chat: when ever our teacher goes out of the classroom we star to chit-chat.
Synonyms: talk
Quicksilver: most of my thermometers have quicksilver in it.
Synonyms: unpredictable

2. First inference: He can beat me to Amsterdam Avenue with me having a two-fire-hydrant head   start and him running with his hands in his pockets and whistling. You are inferring that he is very     fast.
    Second inference: And sometimes after a rain he likes to step down off his tightrope right into the gutter and slosh around getting his shoes and cuffs wet. Then I get hit when I get home. You are are inferring that he has got muddy and she should not have let him get muddy.

3. 1st example: I much rather just knock you down and take my chances even if I am a little girl with skinny arms and a squeaky voice, which is how I got the name Squeaky. This is visual imagery because you can see what she looks like.
    2nd example: The big kids call me Mercury cause I’m the swiftest thing in the neighborhood. This is a Metaphor
    3rd example:

4. He is described like his is a little boy.and I’ve got Raymond walking on the inside close to the buildings, cause he’s subject to fits of fantasy and starts thinking he’s a circus performer and that the curb is a tightrope strung high in the air. This shows he is still a little boy because he would not be in fantasy if he is a big child.

Inference

Inference

He is doing parkour in the city for fun because why would do parkour.
He is running from a person because he wouldn't do parkour in a slump.
He is amazing at doing parkour because you need to be talented to do parkour.
He is a adult just having some fun because he is in a slump.

My final inference is he is having fun.

The landlady

1.  Foreshadowing means somebody makes a sign to warn what's going to come in the future. An example of foreshadowing: he stopped walking. ' Eton schoolboy?” she said. “Oh no, my dear, that can’t possibly be right, because my Mr. Mulholland was certainly not an Eton schoolboy when he came to me.'

2. It is different because inference is you telling what is going to happen but foreshadowing the author is telling what is going to happen by building it up. It is the same because you are saying what going to happen. Example of inference: No, my dear,” she said. “Only you.” You are inferring that it is scary and she is very lonely.

(M= my sentence S= story sentence )
3.Swanky
M.  Today I went past a Swanky restaurant.
S. That once upon a time they had been very Swanky resident.
Congenial
M. The things Fraser said in the talk were congenial and nice because he had though a lot.
S. On the other hand, a pub would be more congenial then a boarding hous.
Rapacious
M. I knew he liked the meal because he was rapacious when eating.
S. Itself conjured up images of watery cabbage, rapacious landladies and a powerful smell of kippers.
Dither
M. I was scared when I was needed to talk because I was dither with my decisions.
S.  After dithering about like this in the cold fore 2 or 3 minutes,
Compelling
M. He was compelling me to do the homework by telling us we would die if we did not do it.
S.  Holding him , compelling him, forcing him to stay where he was,
Compulsion
M. I have felt a lot of compulsion times in my life but I knew I shouldn't do it.
S. The compulsion or, more accurately the desire to follow.
Dotty
M. When I talk to my friends I talk dotty, not when I am in a meeting.
S. The old girl is slightly sooty, Billy told himself.
Dainty
M. My piece of art homework is dainty and very tough to make.
S. Shaking her head and heaving a dainty little sigh.
Tantalizing
M.  The book I was reading  was filled with beautiful tantalising photographs.
S. There is nothing more Tantalizing then a thing like this that lingers just outside the borders of
linger
M. When the fun school ends I linger around school to play with my awesome friends.
S. There is nothing more Tantalizing then a thing like this that lingers just outside the borders of
Emanate
M. I was really looking forward to the food because it was starting to get emanate.
S. A whiff of a perrculiar smell that seemed to emanate from her person.
Malevolent
M. All I could today was that I had to be malevolent to lower because he was mean.
S.
Naive
M. I was naive about the  work that we were given because she wrote a lot of things down.
Gullible
M. It is very easy to trick him because he is gullible.
Beguiling
M. When my teacher is teaching beguiling maths I get really maths and fustrated.

4. 1st example: and the moon was coming up out of a clear starry sky over the houses opposite the station entrance. It tells us that it is the night and the night is usually scary.
2nd example:But the air was deadly cold and the wind was like a flat blade of ice on his cheeks. It tells us that it was cold and he is going to hurry to hotel.

5. 1st point : She has been selecting people to stuff them. BED AND BREAKFAST, BED AND BREAKFAST, BED AND BREAKFAST. Each word was like a large black eye staring at him through the glass, holding him, compelling him, forcing him to stay where he was and not to walk away from that house, it tells us that she has made him go here.
    2nd point : she has been poising people by poisoning their tea.No, thank you,” Billy said. The tea tasted faintly of bitter almonds, and he didn’t much care for it. It tells us that she been putting poison in the tea.

6. The highest point of the story is at the end. No, my dear,” she said. “Only you.” This makes you just stop because it is a sudden ending and makes you think a lot.

7. I makes me think that this story is going to be a scary story. The tea tasted faintly of bitter almonds, and he didn’t much care for it. Because of the almond smell i think it is scary.


8. I think the ending is a bit strange because it suddenly ends. I do not like this ending because I do not like it because I do not know what really happens and it makes me angry and I do not like the sudden ending.

Bonus 1:

Bonus 2: they foreshadow that she has been messing which the last body by stuffing it and the smell of walnuts foreshadows she had been touching the poison that she uses.

Pejorative

Pejorative words are usually words that offend people

Barbarian- Barbarian is an insulting word for a person from an uncivilized culture or a person with no manners. Barbarians aren't known for their etiquette.

Hun-a member of a nomadic people who invaded Europe in the 4th century

Vandal-a member of the Germanic people who overran Gaul and Spain and North Africa and sacked Rome in 455

Mongol-a member of the nomadic peoples of Mongolia

Tree-hugger is a pejorative term for an environmentalis.

Retard is a pejorative term for people who are mentally challenged.

Midget is a pejorative term for people who are small

Nerd is a pejorative term for people who wear glasses

Geek is a pejorative term for people who are obsessed with a hobby.

Pejorative terms are usually offended to women such as: being a wizard is a complement but being
a witch is not. I think this happened because in the olden days women did not have a much power as men.