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

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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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.