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A Sound of Thunder (Metaphors (The vast office at a mass and tangle, a…
A Sound of Thunder
Metaphors
The vast office at a mass and tangle, a snaking and humming of wires and steel boxes. (Pg. 1)
The jungle was high, and the jungle was broad, and the jungle was the entire world forever and forever. (Pg. 5)
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Pterodactyls soaring with cavernous gray wings, gigantic bats of delirium and night fever (Pg. 5) 
A great evil god, folding its delicate watchmaker's claws close to its oily reptilian chest (Pg. 6)
The Monster lay, a hill of solid flesh. (Pg. 8)
Similes
Like a Grand Canyon, across Eternity (Pg.4)
Like a stone idol, like a mountain avalanche, Tyrannosaurus fell. (Pg. 8)
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Examine men like toys (Pg.6)
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Sounds
The jungle was wide and full of twitterings, rustlings, murmurs, and sighs. (Pg. 6)
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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. (Pg. 5)
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Sights
Its armored flesh glittered like a thousand green coins. The coins, crusted with slime, steamed. In the slime, tiny insects wriggled, so that the entire body seemed to twitch and undulate, even while the monster itself did not move. (Pg. 7)
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It was like standing by a wrecked locomotive or a steam shovel at quitting time, all valves being released or levered tight. (Pg. 8)
Smells
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A windstorm from the beast's mouth engulfed them in the stench of slime and old blood. (Pg. 7&8)
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 (Pg.12)
Tounches
Eckels sat there, shivering (Pg. 9)
His hands twitched. (Pg. 11)
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Theme
I believe that one possible theme could be don't be too quick to assume. Eckels just assumed that the dino would be manageable and easy to kill.
I think another possible theme could be maybe to watch
your step. Don't do something that later in life you will look back at and regret. Eckles didn't pay attention, accidentally stepped off the path and later got himself killed because of it.
Foreshadowing
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So be careful. Stay on the Path. Never step off!"
(Pg. 4)
Personification
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The coins, crusted with slime, steamed (Pg. 7)