1. The sign on the wall seemed to quaver under a film of sliding warm water. 

2. It came on great oiled, resilient, striding legs. It towered thirty feet above half of the trees, a great evil god, folding its delicate watchmaker's claws close to its oily reptilian chest. 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.

2. Eckels stood smelling of the air, and there was a thing to the air, a chemical taint so subtle, so slight, that only a faint cry of his subliminal senses warned him it was there. The colors, white, gray, blue, orange, in the wall, in the furniture, in the sky beyond the window, were . . . were . . . . And there was a feel. His flesh twitched. His hands twitched. He stood drinking the oddness with the pores of his body. Somewhere, someone must have been screaming one of those whistles that only a dog can hear. His body screamed silence in return. Beyond this room, beyond this wall, beyond this man who was not quite the same man seated at this desk that was not quite the same desk . . . lay an entire world of streets and people. What sort of world it was now, there was no telling. He could feel them moving there, beyond the walls, almost, like so many chess pieces blown in a dry wind ....

Sun qualities:
Brightness
Heat
Colour
Distance
Energy

1. The teacher is the sun keeping everything in it's orbit.
2. The lion's hair was the colour of the sun, a strong golden colour.
3. When I opened the oven the Suns heat hit my face.

Landlady Analigy

Simile is a comparison using like or as.
Metaphor is a transference of a quality transferred from one thing to another.
An Analigy is a comparison between two things

The landlady is to Billy as mousetrap is to a mouse.

The landlady is a spider, waiting patiently for something to fall into her trap.

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3. Inference is thinking and using your brain to work something out. It is similar because they both give you information on what might happen next.
He sees a dog sleeping by the fire place, this infers it is a safe place but later you realise it foreshadows what will happen to him.

4. The smell of burnt almonds means there is cyanide that cand kill you.

5. It says hilly is 17, is wearing a blue over out and a new brown trilby hat and a brown suit.
It says flowers are tall and beautiful.

6. The land lady has been poisoning men and stuffing them. There was a smell of burnt almonds and her pets had been stuffed really well.

7.The landlady was a great story and had lots of interesting plot points. But did it have a good ending? It is good because you get to work out your own ending and use your brain to do it, but some people may just want a relaxing read and not have to work out the end for themselves. I like the ending because it is complex and you have to use your brain rather than have it just told for you.

The Landlady

1.

Swanky: The new family had done up their house, it looked swanky because of the posh exterior.

Definition: Imposingly fashionable and elegant.

Congenial: The iPad was congenial and awesome as well.

Definition: Suitable to your needs.

Rapacious: The taxi driver was rapacious to foreigners when asking for money.

Definition: Excessively greedy and grasping.

Dither: He was dithering when deciding what to order in McDonalds.

Definition: Be undecided or uncertain.

Compelling: The lawyer put forward a compelling case.

Definition: Driving or forcing.

Compulsion: I had a driving compulsion to play on my iPad.

Definition: An urge to do something that might be better left undone.

Dotty: The dotty old lady next door was outside laughing loudly while pushing a buggy with nothing in it.

Definition: Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.

Dainty: The small dainty dancer was being carried high in the air by her partner.

Definition: Delicately beautiful.

Tantalising: His favourite chocolate bar was tantalisingly close, but he couldn't take it because his mum was watching over him like a hawk.

Definition: Arousing desire or expectation for something unattainable

Linger: Years after the nuclear power station blew up there were still lingering traces of radiation.

Definition: Remain present although waning or gradually dying

Emanate: The smells of the bacon were emanating all around the house.

Definition: Give out, as breath or an odor.

Malevolence: The strange goth in the class looked at the punishing teacher with a malevolence glare.

Definition: Wishing or appearing to wish evil to others

Naive: The inexperienced, naive child couldn't possible understand a year 8 test.

Definition: Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity.

Gullible: The bully convinced the gullible classmate to hurt a smaller student, saying it would be cool and funny.

Definition: Easily tricked because of being too trusting.

Beguiling: The bully was nice to the classmate but he was beguiling him for money.

Definition: Misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods. 

2.

Foreshadowing:

A. The landlady stuffs her pets so they look real.

B. The tea the lady gives him smells like burnt almonds.

C. There have only been two other people before him and they are still in the house.

Last Monday it was sports day, a time once a year where all of secondary get together and do sports. I think that sports day is really fun because we have a great time with our friends like when Eric broke and fell off a chair and cheering for our teammates. On the other hand we did hang about a bit doing nothing. But there is one thing I hat made it all worth while, we took millions of selfies! There were loads of things that made us laugh. Who couldn't laugh when someone falls of a chair, we had a great time. Some people may not have a good time but they must not have took selfies

Jack

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