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A Sound of Thunder Scavenger Hunt (Similes ("exposing a fence of…
A Sound of Thunder Scavenger Hunt
Similes
"exposing a fence of teeth like daggers." (pg 6)
"I'm shaking like a kid." (pg 6)
"examine men like toys." (pg 6)
"crush them like berries." (pg )
"Pebbled skin like the mail of a terrible warrior."(pg 6)
Theme
Little things, can change a lot.
Foreshadowing
"We might need it. I'm warning you. Eckles, I might kill you yet, I got my gun ready."
"Stay on the path, Don't go off of it, I repeat. Do not go off, for any reason. If you fall off there's a penalty."
Touches
"His flesh twisted. His hands twisted. He stood drinking the oddness with the pores of his body."
"Eckles felt himself fall into a chair. He fumbled crazily at the thick slime on his boots."
"He felt the trembling in his arms and he looked down and found his hands tight on the new riffle."
Smell
"Far birds cries blew on a wind, and the smell of tar and an old salt sea,moist grasses, and flowers the color of blood.
"Eckles stood smelling of the air and there was a thing to the air, a chemical taint so subtle."
Sights
"It ran with a gliding ballet step, far too poised and balanced for its ten tons."
"The Tyran lizard raised itself. It's armored flesh glittered like a thousands green coins. The coins, crusted with slime steamed."
"It towered thirty feet above half of the trees, a great evil god, folding its delicate watchmaker's claws close to its only reptilian chest."
Metaphors
Lifted easily upon the sky. (pg 6)
Its mouth gasped. (pg 6)
A thousand pounds of white bones. (pg 6)
"Each lower leg was a piston..."
"A great evil god." (pg 6)
Personification
"The sign on the wall seemed quaver."
"Time steps aside."
Sounds
"The monster roared, teeth glittering with sun. The rifles cracked again, their sound was lost in shriek and lizard thunder."
"The jungle was silent. After the avalanche, a green peace."
" There was a sound of thunder."