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A Sound of Thunder (Metaphors ("And the head itself, a ton of…
A Sound of Thunder
Metaphors
"And the head itself, a ton of sculptured stone," (Page 6)
"Its eyes rolled, ostrich eggs," (Page 6)
"Each thigh was a ton of meat, ivory, and steel mesh." (Page 6)
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"Each lower leg was a piston," (Page 6)
Similes
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"Arms with hands which might pick up and examine men like toys," (Page 6)
"To crush them like berries," (Page 8)
"A thousand pounds of white bone, sunk in thick ropes of muscle, sheathed over in a gleam of pebbled skin like the mail of warrior." (Page 6)
Smell
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"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)
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Touches
"Eckels felt his eyelids blink over his stare," (Page 1)
"He felt the trembling in his arms and he looked down and found his hands tight on the new rifle." (Page 2)
"He heard Travis shift his rifle, click the safety catch, and raise the weapon." (Page 12)
Sights
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"Travis came walking, glanced at Eckels," (Page 8)
"Eckels glanced across the vast office at a mass and tangle," (Page 1)
Sounds
"Within, you could hear the sighs and murmurs as the furthest chambers of it died," (Page 8)
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Foreshadowing
"Up ahead, sixty million years,Election Day over. Keith made President." (Page 5-6)
"That - Mr. Travis pointed - is the jungle of sixty million two thousand and fifty-five years before Presidents Keith." (Page 3)
Personification
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"The rifles cracked again," (Page 8)
Theme
The theme of the story is Eckels, a hunter, wanting to kill a T-Rex, and ending up scared of it and didn't kill it, and walked of the path and killed a butterfly which changed history.