Sound Of Thunder
Figurative Language
Presonification
"...lunged forward with a terrible scream."
"...a snaking and humming of wires and steel boxes..."
Simile
"Its mouth gaped, exposing a fence of teeth like daggers."
"Its armored flesh glittered like a thousand green coins."
"...sheathed over in a gleam of pebbled skin like the mail of a terrible warrior."
"Makes Africa look like Illinois"
"Time steps aside. Like an airplane hitting an air pocket."
"A sound like a gigantic bonfire burning all of the time."
Metaphor
"Each thigh was a ton of meat, ivory, and steel mesh.
"Each thy was a ton of meat"
"It could reach up and grab the moon
TIme was a film run backwards
"Each lower leg was a piston."
Forshadowing
"Crushing certaint plants could add up infinitesimally. A little error here would multiply is sixty million years, all out of proportion."
"Take it easy, all he did was kick up some dirt."
"...to cram them into its teeth and its screaming throat."
"A small thing like that could upset balences and knock down a line of small dominoes and then big and then gigantic dominoes, all down the years across time."
Sensory Details
Sight
Sound
Smell
Touch
Possible Theme
Changing something in the past can affect/impact the future
"They wiped the blood from their helmets
" Sickening gushes drenched the hunters. They stood, red and glistening."
"He held out his hands. Each held a number of steel bullets."
"Eckels breathed, the light of the machine on his thin face"
"Eckels stood 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."
"Eckels turned slowly to regard the primeval garbage dump"
"Sickening gushes drenched the hunters. They stood, red and glistening."
The wiped the blood from their hemets
"It ran with a gliding ballet step, far too poised and balanced for its ten tons."
"The jungle was silent
"There was a sound ot thunder"
The riffles jurked up and blazed fire
"The machine roared"