Clock work

Clock work

1. Words to look up on vocabulary.com and use in a good sentence.

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

Pessimist: a person disposed to take a favorable view of things                                                 

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

Cog:putting stuff together

Chime:a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument

Dynasty:A dynasty is a series of leaders in the same family, like the British Royal Family, or a local business dynasty

Heir:a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another

Glower:look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval

2. Make a list of the comparing and contrasting (similarities/differences) between Karl, Gretl, and Fritz

How they are described

How they think

How they act

How they change

Their role in the story

What happens to them in the end

Find examples from the story to back up your ideas.

answer:

karl

• he is descibed as a selfish clock-maker
• he think that his ideas for the clock work was bad
• he acts scared because he has no ideas of what to do for the clock towel
• he changes bad because he gets really scared
• karl is a foil
• he dies because of the sir iron soul

gretl

• gretl is described as a very nice girl
• she thinks she can help every body because she wants to be a hero
• she becomes a hero
• she is the protagonist because she is a hero
•  she becomes a hero

Fritz

• Fritz is described as a normal man
• he is scared because his story is not finished
• he acts scared
• he is terefied so he runs away
• he is a foil because he is the writer of the story
• he runs of the town because he is scared

3. Pg. 16 What does the author mean by an artistic temperament?

How does he feel about the idea? Why?answer: someone who does not get on with a job and fusses about it .he does not really like it he thinks it is non sense.

4. Pg. 49 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.  Can you explain how this uses simile and metaphor?answer:the metaphor is she felt her heart lift this is a metaphor because your heart cannot lift.

as sound as a bell and as true as a clock this is a simile because it uses the word as and compares things to things

5. The author uses clock terms and references throughout the story.

Find 5 from each part of the book (at least a sentence each, none from the same page please)

Describe what kind of language use each is.answer: 

1.In the old days,when this story took place,time used to run by clock work

2.instead there was a little piece of clock work just a few cogs and springs

3.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.

4.Even prince Otto,in his madness didnt believe that a clock work toy could resemble;a living child

5.two children ,because the prince was not clockwork any more;he was a child as real as any other

BONUS

6. When we say, "it works like clockwork" we usually mean something that works well, precisely, and exactly as expected.

In what ways does this story work like clockwork? In what ways does it not?

List your examples.

Explain why you think the author chose to do this

answer: