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A Sound of Thunder Scavenger Hunt (Similes ("Its mouth gaped,…
A Sound of Thunder
Scavenger Hunt
Similes
"Its mouth gaped, exposing a fence of teeth like daggers" (p.6).
"Its armored flesh glittered like a thousand green coins" (p.7).
"...arms with hands which might pick up and examine men like toys..." (p.6).
"Like a stone idol, like a mountain avalanche, Tyrannosaurus fell" (p.8).
"Suddenly it all ceased, as if someone had shut a door"(p.6).
Metaphors
"Each lower leg was a piston, a thousand pounds of white bone, sunk in thick ropes of muscle..." (p.6).
"Each thigh was a ton of meat, ivory, and steel mesh" (p.6).
"...a great evil god, folding its delicate watchmaker's claws close to its oily reptilian chest" (p.6).
"Its eyes rolled, ostrich eggs, empty of all expression save hunger" (p.6).
"And the head itself, a ton of sculptured stone, lifted easily upon the sky" (p.6).
Foreshadowing
"A sound of thunder" (p.6).
"We might need it. I'm warning you, Eckels, I might kill you yet. I've got my gun ready" (p.10).
Personification
"They sat looking at each other, and the years blazed around them" (p.2).
"Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them" (p.3).
Sounds
"The jungle was wide and full of twitterings, rustlings, murmurs, and sighs" (p.6).
"The rifles cracked again, Their sound was lost in shriek and lizard thunder" (p.7).
"Sounds like music and sounds like flying tents filled the sky..." (p.5).
Touches
"It moved into a sunlit area warily, its beautifully reptilian hands feeling the air" (p.6-7).
"And there was a feel. His flesh twitched. His hands twitched. He stood drinking the oddness with the pores of his body" (p.11).
"He scrabbled at the golden butterfly with shaking fingers" (p.12).
Sights
"The colors, white, gray, blue, orange, in the wall, in the furniture, in the sky beyond the window, were . . . were . . . " (p.11)
"Embedded in the mud, glistening green and gold and black, was a butterfly, very beautiful and very dead" (p.11)
"They stood, red and glistening" (p.8).
Smells
"A windstorm from the beast's mouth engulfed them in the stench of slime and old blood" (p.7-8).
"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" (p.11).
"The stink of raw flesh blew down the wilderness" (p.7).
Theme
"It fell to the floor, an exquisite thing, a small thing that could upset balances and knock down a line of small dominoes and then big dominoes and then gigantic dominoes, all down the years across Time. Eckels' mind whirled. It couldn't change things. Killing one butterfly couldn't be that important! Could it?" (p.12).
