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A Sound of Thunder (Simile ("Like a stone idol, like a mountain…
A Sound of Thunder
Simile
"Like a stone idol, like a mountain avalanche, Tyrannosaurus fell."
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"Out of chars and ashes, out of dust and coals, like golden salamanders, the old years, the green years, might leap;..." Page 1
"... all and everything cupping one another like Chinese boxes, rabbits into hats, all and everything returning to the fresh death, the seed death, the green death, to the time before the beginning." Page 1
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Metaphor
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"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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"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."
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"Each lower leg was a piston, a thousand pounds of white bone, sunk in thick ropes of muscle..."
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"The body hit, ten tons of cold flesh and stone." Page 7
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."
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"Eckels stood smelling 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."
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Sound
"The jungle was wide and full of twitterings, rustlings, murmurs, and sighs."
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" The Monster roared, teeth glittering with sun." Page 7
"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."
Touch
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"It moved into a sunlit area warily, its beautifully reptilian hands feeling the air." Page 6
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Sights
"The sign on the wall seemed to quaver under a film of sliding warm water. Eckels felt his eyelids blink over his stare, and the sign burned in this momentary darkness:
TIME SAFARI, INC. SAFARIS TO ANY YEAR IN THE PAST. YOU NAME THE ANIMAL. WE TAKE YOU THERE. YOU SHOOT IT."
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"They saw themselves mirrored. They fired at the metallic eyelids and the blazing black iris."
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"He indicated a metal path that struck off into the green wilderness, over streaming swamp, among giant ferns and palms."
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Foreshadowing
"A touch of a hand might do it, the merest touch of a hand."
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"A touch of the hand and this burning would, on the instant, beautifully reverse itself. Eckels remembered the wording in the advertisements to the letter."
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