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A Sound of Thunder (Similes (Its mouth gaped, exposing a fence of teeth…
A Sound of Thunder
Similes
Its mouth gaped, exposing a fence of teeth like daggers.
Step on a mouse and you leave your print, like a Grand Canyon, across Eternity.
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Metaphor
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Each thigh was a ton of meat, ivory, and steel mesh.
And the head itself, a ton of sculptured stone, lifted easily upon the sky.
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Sounds like music and sounds like flying tents filled the sky, and those were pterodactyls soaring with cavernous gray wings, gigantic bats of delirium and night fever.
Imagery/Sensory details
Touch
The coins, crusted with slime, steamed.
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A touch of a hand might do it, the merest touch of a hand.
Sound
The rifles cracked again, their sound was lost in shriek and lizard thunder.
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Smell
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the smell of tar and an old salt sea, moist grasses, and flowers the color of blood.
Sight
Embedded in the mud, glistening green and gold and black, was a butterfly, very beautiful and very dead.
The Monster lashed its armored tail, twitched its snake jaws, and lay still.
The jungle was high and the jungle was broad and the jungle was the entire world forever and forever.
Personification
Eckels glanced across the vast office at a mass and tangle, a snaking and humming of wires and steel boxes, at an aurora that flickered now orange, now silver, now blue
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Foreshadowing
Who knows what he's done to Time, to History!"
"We guarantee nothing," said the official
Theme
Instead of trying to alter the past, try to make a better future.