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Sound of Thunder (Similes ("all and everything cupping one in another…
Sound of Thunder
Similes
"all and everything cupping one in another like Chinese boxes,"
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"Out of chars and ashes, out of dust and coals, like golden salamanders,"
"There was a sound like a gigantic bonfire burning all of Time,"
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Metaphors
pterodactyls soaring with cavernous gray wings, gigantic bats of delirium and night fever."
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"It towered thirty feet above half of the trees, a great evil god,"
Each lower leg was a piston,
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Sensory Detail
Sight
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"Its eyes rolled, ostrich eggs, empty of all expression save hunger."
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Smell
"and the smell of tar and old salt sea, moist grass and flowers the color of blood"
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"Eckels stood smelling of the air, and there was a thing to the air, a chemical taint so subtle,"
Sounds
"Somewhere, someone must have been screaming one of those whistles that only a dog can hear."
"Eckels glanced across the vast office at a mass and tangle, a snaking and humming of wires and steel boxes"
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Touch
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"Doesn't touch so much as one grass blade, flower, or tree."
"front, arms with hands which might pick up and examine men like toys, "
Theme
A possible theme for this story id that little things can make big changes. Just killing a butterfly changed who ran their country which is a major change.
Personification
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"moons eat themselves opposite to the custom,"
Forshadowing
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For want of ten mice, a fox dies.
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