Tuesday, 8 December 2015

Clockwork

1) optimist: Someone who thinks positively
pessimist: Someone who thinks negatively
oscillate: swing from side to side
cog:  the metal wheal that turns inside a clock
chime: a percussion instrument. When it is hit with a hammer it makes a sound.
dynasty: A lot powerful people is the same family
heir: If your dad is the king and he dies, you will be heir to the throne.
glower: to stare angrily at someone

2)   Karl                                                Gretl                                                     Fritz
      He is a pessimist                             She is a little barmaid                          He is an optimist
     


3) The author thinks negatively about artistic temperaments and he says " If you hear anyone talking about the artistic temperament, you can be sure they don't know what they're talking about."  So he says its like an excuse

4) 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
Similes: "a child as sound as a bell" and "as true as a clock"
Metaphors: " she felt her heart lift"

5) " Tick, tock, tick, tock"  This is onomatopoeia and repetition.
“I wish I had a child as sound as a bell and as true as a clock”  these are similes 
"And now that it's all wound up, we can begin."  This is a metaphor
" Instead there was a piece of clockwork...."
" Time is running out, like sand in the hourglass..." Simile




Friday, 4 December 2015

The fault in our stars

The Fault in our Stars

The Fault in our Stars is a realistic fiction and coming of age story.
It is a realistic fiction because it is very believable and could actually happen, and coming of age because she's forced to make decisions. Hazel has to make decisions that could change her life: 
If Hazel didn't go to the cancer support group she wouldn't go to Amsterdam, wouldn't have met the author of her favourite book. 
If she didn't go to Amsterdam she would just be at her home depressed.


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Tuesday, 1 December 2015

The landlady genre


The Landlady

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

"The tea tasted faintly of bitter almonds" 
This is mystery because we don't know why it tastes like almonds. Bitter almonds are usually poison.


“It doesn’t look in the least bit dead. Who did it?”
“I did.”

This is mystery, suspense and realistic fiction . It's mystery because it's strange that she stuffed her pets and suspense because we don't know if Billy is in danger or not and what's going to happen to him. It is realistic fiction because people do stuff animals and it is very believable.


"she looked up at him out of the corners of her eyes and gave him another gentle little smile.
“No, my dear,” she said. ‘Only you.'" 
This is suspense because we don't know what happened after the book ends.

"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."
Billy is a very believable character and could actually exist and the setting of the story is very believable story. This is realistic fiction because it's very believable.
 

A sound of thunder genre


The Sound of Thunder 

The sound of thunder is a suspense and science fiction story.
"Does this safari guarantee I come back alive?"
This quote is suspense because we don't know what will happen in the future. 

All summer in a day genre


All Summer in a Day 

All summer in a day is a suspense, science fiction and coming of age story. 
"She'd better hurry we'll miss it!"
This is suspense because they might not see the sun.

"Behind the closet was only silence."
At this point we dont know if Margot got out of the closet or she is still in there, so this is suspense

"Margot stood apart from them, from these children who never remember  a time when there wasn't rain and rain and rain"
This is coming of age because some children get picked on when their young.

"And this was the way life was forever on the planet Venus"
This is science fiction because we don't live on Venus


 


Raymonds run genre


Raymond's Run

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

"I don’t have much work to do around the house like some girls. My mother does that."
This is realistic fiction because some girls don't have to do house work and it sounds realistic 

Scholarship jacket genre

The Scholarship Jacket

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

Thursday, 29 October 2015

Genre

1) Auautobiography 
2) Mystery 
3) realistic fiction
4) folk tale
5) newspaper 
6) play
7) biography
8) non-fiction
9) reference 
10) historical fiction
11) information 
12) fantasy
13) poetry 
14) fiction
15) science fiction 

Tuesday, 27 October 2015

Figurative Language

Simile- Comparison (the things that are the same) using like or as.

Cute as a button.
Pure as the driven snow.
You are as brave as a lion.
You slept like a log.
As cold as ice.

Metaphor- transferring a quality from one thing to another.

The big kids call me Mercury because I'm the swiftest thing in the neighbourhood.
He drowned in the sea of grief.
She is fishing in troubled waters.
Roller coaster of emotions.
Feel blue.

Symbols- something that represents something else.

Apple
WWF
Mercedes
Nike
Bat man
Mc Donald
twitter
Chevalier
Toyota
Olympics
Audi
Shell
Microsoft


A Sound of Thunder

I'm  1.The penalties of shooting when not supposed to will cost $10,000 or government action.
2. They said that if Deutscher would win the election they would live in 1492
3.According to Travis the best way to kill a dinosaur is to blind them and then shoot their brain.
4. They travelled 60 million years 2 thousand and 45 years.
5. The anti gravity path floats above the ground do the humans don't touch the past. They must stay on it because if they kill a plant it might change the future.
6. The machine, their bodies and the path was sterilized.
7. They wear oxygen helmets because they don't want to bring bacteria to the past.
8. They studied certain animals and when they were going to die, so they picked the one that would die sooner than the others.
9. He pretended to aim his gun.
10. He said he didn't realise it was so big and miscalculated.
11. Someone had to shoot the Trex with red paint.
12. They sat down on the pathway and threw up.
13. He made Eckles cut out the bullets from the T. Rex.
14. He noticed that the letters were different.
15. He found a dead butterfly.

The sound of thunder means the gun shot and in the middle of the story it was the stomp of the T. rex. At the end of the story we inferred that is was going to die because Travis said he will kill Eckles if he changed anything in the future.


The Tyrant Lizard raised itself. Its armored flesh glittered like a thousand green coins. The coins, crusted with slime, steamed. In the slime, tiny insects wriggled, so that the entire body seemed to twitch and undulate, even while the monster itself did not move. It exhaled. The stink of raw flesh blew down the wilderness. 

In this paragraph there is 2 examples of sight imagery and 1 example of touch imagery.

It's a armord flesh glittered like a thousand green coins.
We imagine strong, green flesh glittering.

The coins, crusted with slime, steamed.
We see the Trex's scale all slimy and we see the steam coming out of them.
We also feel the warm air on his face.

In the beginning of the story they keep telling Eckles not to go off the path and later he went off the path and changed a lot of things.

Later in the story Travis says he will shoot Eckles if he changed anything in the future, Eckles changed something and he got shot by Travis.

Travis warns Eckles not to kill any animals because it will kill a chain of animals. Eckles killed a butterfly and killed the butterflies chain.

An anaphora is a word or phrase repeated multiple times: like "sound of thunder" is reported a lot through out the story.

Metaphor- transferring a quality from one thing to another

The Machine howled. Time was a film run backward.
This is comparing the machine to a film running backwards

Simile- Comparison (the things that are the same) using like or as
Its armored flesh glittered like a thousand green coins.
The T. Rex's flesh glittered like coins.

The butterfly is the symbol for the butterfly effect. The butterfly that Eckles killed started a chain reaction, the butterfly did the butterfly effect.




Thursday, 8 October 2015

Raymonds run

ISignify- denote or connote
“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.
When the bell rings once it signifies that it's break, when the bell rings twice that signifies that it's lunch time.
Prefer-to like better
I’m ready to fight, cause like I said I don’t feature a whole lot of chit-chat, I much prefer to just knock you down right from the jump and save everybody a lotta precious time.

Hustle-move energetically or busily
And I don’t have to earn my pocket money by hustling; George runs errands for the big boys and sells Christmas cards.
There was a big hustle to go to the mall because there was a massive sale

Periscope-an instrument providing a view of an obstructed field
He looks around the park for Gretchen like a periscope in a submarine movie.
The captain looked through the periscope to see if the enemy was near them.

Static- not a physical motion
Raymond is hollering from the swings cause he knows I’m about to do my thing cause the man on the loudspeaker has just announced the fifty-yard dash, although he might just as well be giving a recipe for angel food cake cause you can hardly make out what he’s sayin for the static.

Rowdy-loud and rough
The parkees unfolding chairs and chasing the rowdy kids from Lenox as if they had no right to be there.
The teenagers were being rowdy in the once peaceful park.

Slosh-clumsy
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.

Uptight-Being in a tense state
I’ll high-prance down 34th Street like a rodeo pony to keep my knees strong even if it does get my mother uptight so that she walks ahead like she’s not with me, don’t know me, is all by herself on a shopping trip, and I am somebody else’s crazy child.

Glockenspiel- a percussion instrument made of metal bars 
 Most of the kids in my class are carrying bass drums and glockenspiels and flutes.

Prodigy-an unusually talented person
The 6 year old chess prodigy beat everyone at the competition

Corsage- A bouquet of flowers worn on clothing or wrists, like prom.
My friend gave me a corsage to use in prom.

Spiel- a long talk about a subject
Me and my friend had a long spiel about food.

Liable- Likely 
I am more liable to get a pet kitten then my friend because I like cats and she doesn't

Ventriloquist- an entertainer who uses a dummy
The ventriloquist used a dummy to tell a funny story.

Jam packed- full of people
The concert hall was jam packed full of people

Squint- when you close your eyes a bit
When I look up at the sun I have to squint my eyes

Chit chat-simple informal chat
My friend always has a chit chat in middle of the lessons.

Quicksilver- toxic metal
The miners found a lot of quicksilver in the mines last night.

Inferences 

I don’t have much work to do around the house like some girls. My mother does that. And I don’t have to earn my pocket money by hustling; George runs errands for the big boys and sells Christmas cards. And anything else that’s got to get done, my father does. All I have to do in life is mind my brother Raymond, which is enough. 
This tells us that she doesn't have much responsibilities.

“I always win cause I’m the best,”

This tells us that she thinks she's good at running and she doesn't hide it. 

Imagery

I am a little girl with skinny arms and a squeaky voice
This example of imagery uses sight and hearing imagery
We see a little girl with skinny arms and we hear a squeaky voice. 

I think Raymond is a childish person and likes to imagine things.
 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.

Tuesday, 6 October 2015

4-8


4) 'He was wearing a new navy-blue overcoat, a new brown trilby hat, and a new brown suit' 
That is sight imagery, this helps us imagine Billy.

'The tea tasted faintly of bitter almonds'
 This is taste imagery, this helps us imagine what the tea tasted like.
  5) I think the landlady is a murderer and stuffs men and animals.
'the door swung open and a woman was standing there.' I think this means she is always there waiting for her new victims.

'I stuff all my little pets myself when they pass away.' This shows that she STUFFS animals when they die. This proofs that the landlady stuffs people.


6) I think the end is the climax of the story because the lady gives Billy that creepy smile.

7) The smell of burnt almonds is the smell of a poison that is deadly to humans. I appreciate the story more because of the small details that Roald Dahl put in.

8) I liked the ending because it leaves some mystery to the story. This way the reader can imagine what happens next.

Tuesday, 29 September 2015

The Landlady 1-3

1) Foreshadowing- Foreshadowing is when there is warning of what's going to happen in the future.
 ˝He was in the act of stepping back and turning away from the window when all at once his eye was caught and held in the most peculiar manner by the small notice that was there. BED AND BREAKFAST, it said. 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, and the next thing he knew, he was actually moving across from the window to the front door of the house, climbing the steps that led up to it, and reaching for the bell.˝He didnt want to go to that house, he wanted to go to The Bell and Dragon but the sign ˝made˝ him go there. I think that house is dangerous or the lady is a murderer.

2) Foreshadowing is different than inferences because foreshadowing is like a warning to the future and inferences are what we can get a conclusion from a fact.
“Excuse me,” he said, “but is there a fairly cheap hotel not too far away from here?” 
From this we can guess that Billy doesn't have a lot of money.

3)
a) They had porches and pillars and four or five steps going up to their front doors, and it was obvious that once upon a time they had been very swanky residences.
I got these swanky new shoes.

b)On the other hand, a pub would be more congenial than a boardinghouse.
After dinner they were more congenial.

c) The name itself conjured up images of watery cabbage, rapacious landladies, and a powerful smell of kippers in the living room.

d) After dithering about like this in the cold for two or three minutes, Billy decided that he would walk on and take a look at The Bell and Dragon before making up his mind.
The girl dithered for a while, but she decided to wear the black dress.

e)  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, and the next thing he knew, he was actually moving across from the window to the front door of the house, climbing the steps that led up to it, and reaching for the bell.
The boy compelled the girls to come to his birthday party at his house.

f) The compulsion or, more accurately, the desire to follow after her into that house was extraordinarily strong.
The tests grade is 25% of the end of years grade so she felt a compulsion to study more.

g) The old girl is slightly dotty, Billy told himself.
The girl started talking to herself in the middle of the class, I think she is a bit dotty.

h) There is nothing more tantalizing than a thing like this that lingers just outside the borders of one’s memory.
The smell of my neighbours barbecue was tantalizing.

i)  There is nothing more tantalizing than a thing like this that lingers just outside the borders of one’s memory.




The smell of their cigarettes lingered in my room for days.

j) Now and again, he caught a whiff of a peculiar smell that seemed to emanate directly from her person.
I cook so badly the smell emanates into my neighbours house then they call me to shut my windows so the smell wont go outside.

k) Malevolent is when someone wants something bad to happen to others. The malevolent ghost was haunting the little girl.

l) Naive is a person who is simple or inexperienced.
The little boy was so naive he believed everything he read.
m) Gullible is when a person is tricked easily or is too trusting
"Don't be so gullible you fell straight into my trap!" Said the Wicked Witch.

n) Beguiling is an attractive person.
A very beguiling customer came into my flower shop the other day.