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The Sound of Thunder (simile ("...everything cupping one in another…
The Sound of Thunder
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"Step on a mouse and you leave your print, like a Grand Canyon, across Eternity." Pg. 3
"Out of chars and ashes, out of dust and coals, like golden salamanders..." Pg. 1
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"There was a sound like a gigantic bonfire burning all of Time, all the years and all the parchment calendars, all the hours piled high and set aflame." Pg. 1
Metaphors
"Each lower leg was a piston, a thousand pounds of white bone, sunk in thick ropes of muscle..." Pg. 6
"It ran with a gliding ballet step, far too poised and balanced for its ten tons." Pg. 6
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"The jungle was high and the jungle was broad and the jungle was the entire world forever and forever." Pg. 5
Sensory Details; Touch
"He felt the trembling in his arms and he looked down and found his hands tight on the new rifle." Pg. 2
"He returned, shuddering, five minutes later, his arms soaked and red to the elbows." Pg. 11
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Sensory Detail; Sound
"The Monster, at the first motion, lunged forward with a terrible scream." Pg. 7
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"Sounds like music and sounds like flying tents filled the sky,..." Pg. 5
Sensory Detail; Smel
"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." Pg. 10
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Sensory Detail; Sight
"And from the great breathing cage of the upper body those two delicate arms dangled out front, arms with hands which might pick up and examine men like toys, while the snake neck coiled." Pg. 6
" In the slime, tiny insects wriggled, so that the entire body seemed to twitch and undulate, even while the monster itself did not move." Pg. 7
"It towered thirty feet above half of the trees, a great evil god, folding its delicate watchmaker's claws close to its oily reptilian chest." Pg. 6
Foreshadowing
"We guarantee nothing," said the official, "except the dinosaurs." Pg. 1
"Crushing certain plants could add up infinitesimally. A little error here would multiply in sixty million years, all out of proportion." Pg. 4
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