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A Sound of Thunder Scavenger Hunt (Similies ("Within, you could hear…
A Sound of Thunder Scavenger Hunt
Similies
"Within, you could hear the sighs and murmurs as the furthest chambers of it died, the organs malfunctioning, liquids running a final instant from pocket to sac to spleen, everything shutting off, closing up forever. It was like standing by a wrecked locomotive or a steam shovel at quitting time..." (page 8)
"The Monster twitched its jeweler's hands down to fondle at the men, to twist them in half, to crush them like berries, to cram them into its teeth and its screaming throat." (page 8)
"Like a stone idol, like a mountain avalanche, Tyrannosaurus fell." (page 8)
"exposing a fence of teeth like daggers" (page 6)
"pebbled skin like the mail of a terrible warrior" (page 6)
Sounds
"The rifles cracked again, Their sound was lost in shriek and lizard thunder" (page 8)
"Silence." (page 6)
"...lunged forward with a terrible scream" (page 7)
Foreshadowing
"Stay on the Path. Don't go off it. I repeat. Don't go off. For any reason! If you fall off, there's a penalty. And don't shoot any animal we don't okay." (page 3)
"We don't want to change the Future. We don't belong here in the Past. The government doesn't like us here. We have to pay big graft to keep our franchise. A Time Machine is finicky business. Not knowing it, we might kill an important animal, a small bird, a roach, a flower even, thus destroying an important link in a growing species." (page 3)
Touches
"Thundering, it clutched trees, pulled them with it." (page 8)
"He held up a clod of dirt" (page 11)
" its beautifully reptilian hands feeling the air." (page 7)
Smells
" A windstorm from the beast's mouth engulfed them in the stench of slime and old blood." (pages 7 and 8)
"the smell of tar and an old salt sea, moist grasses, and flowers the color of blood." (page 3)
"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." (page 11)
Personification
"Trees exploded in clouds of leaf and branch" (page 8)
"The fog that had enveloped the Machine blew away and they were in an old time..." (page 3)
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Metaphores
"a great evil god" (page 6)
"Each lower leg was a piston" (page 6)
"thick ropes of muscle" (page 6)
"And the head itself, a ton of sculptured stone" (page 6)
"The Monster lashed its armored tail, twitched its snake jaws..." (page 8)
Sights
"Its mouth gaped, exposing a fence of teeth like daggers" (page 6)
"They stood, red and glistening." (page 8)
"The muscles around his mouth formed a smile..." (page 1)
Theme
Follow the rules the first time you are told what they are