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A Sound of Thunder Scavenger Hunt (Similes ("exposing a fence of…
A Sound of Thunder Scavenger Hunt
Similes
"exposing a fence of teeth like daggers" (pg 6 par 13)
" Its armored flesh glittered like a thousand green coins." (pg 7 par 10)
"examine men like toys," (pg 6 par 13)
" After a long time, like a sleepwalker he shuffled out along the Path."(pg 10 par 1)
"pebbled skin like the mail of a terrible warrior." (pg 6 par 13)
Metaphor
"a great evil god," (pg 6 par 13)
"Each lower leg was a piston" (pg 6 par 13)
" And the head itself, a ton of sculptured stone" (pg 6 par 13)
"folding its delicate watchmaker's claws close to its oily reptilian chest."(pg 6 par 13)
"Its eyes rolled, ostrich eggs, empty of all expression save hunger"(pg 6 par 13)
Personification
"The rifles cracked again,"(pg 7 par 17)
", a snaking and humming of wires and steel boxes, at an aurora that flickered now orange, now silver, now blue."(pg 1 par5)
Smells
" A windstorm from the beast's mouth engulfed them in the stench of slime and old blood." (pg 7 par 16)
"The stink of raw flesh blew down the wilderness." (pg 7 par 9)
" Far birds' cries blew on a wind, and the smell of tar and an old salt sea, moist grasses, and flowers the color of blood." (pg 3 par 10)
Sights
"toward the Machine, toward the silver metal and the roaring light." (pg 2 par 8)
"He indicated a metal path that struck off into green wilderness, over streaming swamp, among giant ferns and palms."(pg 3 par 7)
" The Monster lay, a hill of solid flesh." (pg 8 par 7)
Feels
"Can these guns get a dinosaur cold?" Eckels felt his mouth saying."(pg 2 par 11)
"He felt the trembling in his arms and he looked down and found his hands tight on the new rifle."(pg2 par 10)
"Eckels felt his eyelids blink over his stare, and the sign burned in this momentary darkness:" (pg 1 par 1)
Forshadowing
"Makes you think, if the election had gone badly yesterday, I might be here running away from the results. Thank God Keith won. He'll make a fine president of the United States."(pg 2 par 1)
"And all the families of that one mouse! With a stamp of your foot, you annihilate first one, then a dozen, then a thousand, a million, a billion possible mice!"(pg 4 par 1)
Theme
DON'T STEP OFF OF THE PATH.
Sounds
"Within, you could hear the sighs and murmurs as the furthest chambers of it died," (pg 8 par 7)
" There was a sound like a gigantic bonfire burning all of Time," (pg 1 par 5)
"Sounds like music and sounds like flying tents filled the sky"(pg 5 par 8)