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shiny eloquent patient

Shiny:

Now use a thesaurus to find some interesting adjectives.

gleaming

sparkling

Simile and metaphor always help with your writing. We are going to take the adjectives you have just written and try to make them into simile and metaphors to help with your writing.

As shiny as polished metal.

He could talk his way out of a locked box.

As elegant as a giraffe.

Her eyes are as bright as stars in the sky

Now we are going to use this information to write our own description of a robot that washes dishes.

Mechanical Arm Reaching Klone, or MARK, as I like to call him, is obviously a Klone from the Klone factory, ( they produce household helpers for us all!). He has always been as red as a beetroot with massive elongated arms. He flies through washing up as easily as a speed boat hurtles through water. Mark’s tiny slit-like eyes remind me of those holes in castle walls- you know the ones they fire arrows out of? He was a cheap model and so he simply has a thin black smear for a mouth. Pity really, it might have been lovely to talk to him.

He seems to enjoy water. Whenever we get him close to the sink his eyes gleam like candles in the dark; he jiggles up and down excitedly. I have to wonder if he has a spring for a tummy. He sets to work immediately, whizzing through the dishes with great efficiency. When he has finished he wraps his arms around his pink middle and settles into standby mode with a gentle whoosh, as the hissing hydraulics that power him come to a slow stop.