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A Sound of Thunder Scavenger Hunt (Similes ("Step on a mouse and you…
A Sound of Thunder Scavenger Hunt
Examples of Personification
"Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them." (pg. 3)
"The Machine slowed; its scream fell to a murmur." (pg. 3)
Similes
"Step on a mouse and you leave your print, like a Grand Canyon, across Eternity." (pg.4)
"...and sounds like flying tents filled the sky..." (pg. 5)
"...all and everything cupping one in another like Chinese boxes..." (pg. 1)
"...a gleam of pebbled skin like the mail of a terrible warrior." (pg. 6)
"There was a sound like a gigantic bonfire..." (pg. 1)
Metaphors
"Each lower leg was a piston..." (pg. 6)
"... the head itself, a ton of sculptured stone..." (pg. 6)
"...its delicate watchmaker's claws..." (pg. 6)
"It towered thirty feet above half of the trees, a great evil god..." (pg. 6)
"Its eyes rolled, ostrich eggs..." (pg. 6)
Sights
"...and flowers the color of blood." (pg. 3)
"Eckels glanced across the vast office at a mass and tangle, a snaking and humming of wires and steel boxes..." (pg. 1)
"The jungle was high and the jungle was broad and the jungle was the entire world forever and forever." (pg. 5)
Sounds
"The Monster roared..." (pg. 8)
"The rifles cracked again, their sound was lost in shriek and lizard thunder." (pg. 8)
"The jungle was silent. After the avalanche, a green peace." (pg. 8)
Smells
"Eckels stood smelling of the air, and there was a thing to the air, a chemical taint so subtle..." (pg. 11)
"...and the smell of tar..." (pg. 3)
"...and the smell of ... an old salt sea..." (pg. 3)
Touches
"His hands tight on the new rifle." (pg. 2)
"Eckels felt himself fall into the chair." (pg. 11)
"He scrabbled at the golden butterfly with shaken fingers." (pg. 12)
Possible Theme
Little things can make a big difference.
Examples of Foreshadowing
"We might need it. I'm warning you, Eckels, I might kill you yet. I've got my gun ready." (pg. 10)
"We don't want anyone going who'll panic at the first shot." (pg. 2)
