Clockwork Quetions

Question 3. What does the author mean by artistic temperament? How does he feel about this word?
The author thinks its a lot of hooey because only amateurs have artistic temperaments.
Question 4. "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." He is using a simile when he writes “I wish I had a child as sound as a bell and as true as a clock”. This is a simile because he uses as in the quote. Also at the end when it is written that here heart lifted it is a metaphor because her heart did not actually lift but she feels like it did.
Question 5. 
Example 1. "Tick,tock,tick,tock! Bit by bit they move, and tick us steadily on towards our grave." 
 This sentence has onomatopoeia and that lives are somehow connected to time and clocks.
2. "Instead, there was a little piece of clockwork: just a few cogs and springs and a balance wheel, attached in subtle ways to the Princes veins and tick-tick-ticking away merrily, in perfect time to the lashing of his arm." 
This sentence uses sight imagery when he describes the clock components and repetitive onomatopoeia when he writes "tick-tick-ticking".
3."You have wound up the future, my boy! It has already begun to tick!"
Again the author refers to how clocks are connected to human time and life.
4."His mainspring was bound to weaken, his escapement to become clogged with dust."
This is in a passage about Dr. Kalmenius talking to Prince Otto about how his sons mechanical heart was bound to fail after a period of time.
This sentence uses sight imagery when he describes the components inside Prince Florian. 
5."Finally she clambered up through a trapdoor into the very topmost chamber, and found a silver moonlight shining in on such a complexity of mechanical parts she could make no sense of them at all."
This writing symbolises her own state of mind because she is confused.