A Sound of Thunder
Foreshadowing
Smell
Personification
Metaphors
Touches
Similes
Sights
Sounds
Theme
"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)
"Within, you could hear the sighs and murmurs as the furthest chambers of it died," (Page 8)
"Another cracking sound." (Page 8)
"Their sound was lost in shriek and lizard thunder." (Page 8)
"A windstorm from the beast's mouth engulfed them in the stench of slime and old blood." (Page 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." (Page 11)
"The stink of raw flesh blew down the wilderness." (Page 7)
"They saw themselves mirrored." (Page 8)
"Travis came walking, glanced at Eckels," (Page 8)
"Eckels glanced across the vast office at a mass and tangle," (Page 1)
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.
"Exposing a fence of teeth like daggers." (Page 6)
"Its armored flesh glittered like a thousand green coins." (Page 7)
"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)
"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)
"It closed its mouth in a death grin." (Page 6)
"Each lower leg was a piston," (Page 6)
"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)
"The rifles jerked up and blazed fire." (Page 7)
"The rifles cracked again," (Page 8)