Clock work answers

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3.
The author means that Karl is lazy and it's a lot of hooey.
Also he thinks that Karl should pull his act together and not be so pessimistic.

4.
'As sound as a bell and as true as a clock'; 'as' is the simile.

'she felt her heart lift.' this is the metaphor part.

5.
'I mean, springs and cogwheels and gears' This is sight imagery and a list of clock parts.

"I haven't made a figure,' he muttered' The figure is the characterisation of something or someone, in this case the clock is being characterised. This is also a bit of sight imagery (the figure).

'I command you to make me a child of clockwork who will not die.' People are like clocks once the battery dies you die, also clocks are filled with allsorts of things like us humans.

'Can't you just wind him up?' This represents a simile winding someone up and winding a clock up.

'It's full of miscellaneous bits and pieces, and they're not even connected up properly: broken springs, wheels with cogs missing, rusty gears- worthless rubbish, all of it! I do hope Karl didn't make it; I thought better of him than that.' This is a list of the bad things in the figure.