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"A Sound of Thunder" Project (Similes ("...like flying…
"A Sound of Thunder" Project
Possible Theme
"It fell to the floor, an exquisite thing, a small thing that could upset balances and knock down a line of small dominoes and then big dominoes and then gigantic dominoes, all down the years across Time."(pg 11)
Personification
"The Machine howled."(pg 3)
"...its scream fell to a murmur."(pg 3)
Touches
"Eckels felt himself fall into a chair." (pg 11)
"A touch of the hand and this burning would, on the instant, beautifully reverse itself."(pg 1)
"He felt the trembling in his arms..."(pg 2)
Similes
"...like flying tents filled the sky..."(pg 5)
"I'm shaking like a kid."(pg 6)
"...like Chinese boxes..."(pg 1)
"...gleam of pebbled skin like the mail of a terrible warrior"(pg 6)
"...like a gigantic bonfire ..." (pg 1)
Smell
"...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..."(pg 11)
"Eckels turned slowly to regard the primeval garbage dump..."(pg 10)
"...he smell of tar and an old salt sea, moist grasses..."(pg 3)
Sound
"...hear the sighs and murmurs as the furthest chambers..."(pg 8)
"Another cracking sound."(pg8)
Far birds' cries blew on a wind..."(pg 3)
Sights
"...his arms soaked and red to the elbows."(pg 10)
"...glistening green and gold and black, was a butterfly, very beautiful and very dead."(pg 11)
"They gazed back at the ruined Monster..."(pg 9)
Metaphor
"...sunk in thick ropes of muscle..."(pg 6)
"...its jeweler's hands down to fondle at the men..."(pg 8)
"Each lower leg was a piston..."(pg 6)
"...twitched its snake jaws..."(pg 8)
"...flowers the color of blood."(pg 3)
Foreshadowing
"...Put your first two shots into the eyes, if you can, blind them, and go back into the brain." (pg 3)
"...A Time Machine is finicky business. Not knowing it, we might kill an important animal, a small bird, a roach, a flower even, thus destroying an important link in a growing species."(pg 3)