A Sound of Thunder
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Imagery/Sensory Detail
Smell
"The stink of raw flesh blew down the wilderness." pg. 7
"A windstorm from the beast's mouth engulfed them in the stench of slime and old blood." pg. 7
"The smell of tar and an old salt sea, moist grasses, and flowers the color of blood." pg. 3
Touch
"Its beautifully reptilian hands feeling the air." pg. 6
"A touch of a hand might do it, the merest touch of a hand. " pg. 1
"His gun limp in his arms." pg. 7
Sound
"A sound of thunder." pg. 6
"The jungle was wide and full of twittering, rustlings, murmurs, and sighs." pg.6
"There was a sound like a gigantic bonfire burning all of Time." pg.1
Sight
"An aurora that flickered now orange, now silver, now blue." pg.1
"The jungle was high and the jungle was broad and the jungle was the entire world forever and forever." pg. 5
"He indicated a metal path that struck off into green wilderness, over streaming swamp, among giant ferns and palms." pg. 3
Theme
Personification
"A Tyrannosaurus Rex. The Tyrant Lizard." pg. 2
"The Machine roared." pg. 2
"A snaking and humming of wires and steel boxes." pg. 1
Foreshadowing
"Stepped of the Path, and walked not knowing it, in the jungle." pg. 7
"Makes you think, If the election had gone badly yesterday, I might be here now running away from the results." pg. 1
Metaphor
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"Can these guns get a dinosaur cold?" pg. 2
"It could reach up and grab the moon."
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Similies
"After a long time, like a sleepwalker he shuffled out along the Path." pg. 9
"They fired at the metallic eyelids and the blazing black iris, Like a stone idol, like a mountain avalanche." pg.7
"Time steps aside. Like an airplane hitting an air pocket." pg. 5
"Its armored flesh glittered like a thousand green coins." pg. 7
Do as you are told and don't mess with something you don't know about
"Sounds like music and sounds like flying tents filled the sky." pg. 5