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slowly and deliberately unfolding the plot
Explanation:
The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb is the 9th of the 12 stories found in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes written by a British writer known as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.The story which was set in 1889 talks about Mr. Victor Hatherley, a hydraulic engineer from London.
Colonel Lysander Stark was said to have visited the young Engineer in his office and offered him a task to examine the hydraulic press that was used to crush earth into bricks. Strange events took place and Colonel Stark tried to kill Mr. Victor using a machine. He tried to escape by jumping off a second story window but got his thumb severed in the process by Starks Cleaver.
To gather, summon or rise
Simile: The clock goes as fast as a mouse.
metaphor: That clock really is my enemy.
Personification: The clocking keeps running.
Onomatopoeia: Tick, tock, tick, tock...
Alliteration: The clock's clicking creates crazy compact catastrophes in my head!
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