A Sound of Thunder Scavenger Hunt
Similes
Metaphors
Personification
Foreshadowing
"Its armored flesh glittered like a thousand green coins." -Page 7
"...like golden salamanders..." -Page 1
"It's mouth gaped, exposing a fence of teeth like daggers." -Page 6
"There was a sound like a gigantic bonfire burning all of time..." -Page 1
"..over in a gleam of pebbled skin like the mail of a terrible warrior." -Page 6
"Eckels turned slowly to regard the primeval garbage dump..." -Page 10
"that hill of nightmares and terror." -Page 10
"They gazed back at the ruined Monster, the stagnating mound..." -Page 9
"The Monster lay, a hill of solid flesh." -Page 8
"Each lower leg was a piston..." -Page 6
"I'm warning you, Eckels, I might kill you yet. I've got my gun ready." -Page 10
"...we might kill an important animal, a small bird, a roach, a flower even, thus destroying an important link in a growing species." -Page 3
"The machine slowed; its scream fell to a murmur." -Page 3
Sights
"It came on great oiled, resilient, striding legs. It towered thirty feet above half of the trees, a great evil god..." -Page 6
"Out of the mist, one hundred yards away, came Tyrannosaurus Rex." -Page 6
"It ran with a gliding ballet step, far too poised and blaanced for it's ten tons." -Page 6
Smells
"It exhaled. The stink of raw flesh blew down the wilderness." -Page 7
"Eckels stood smelling of the air, and there was a thing to the air, a chemical taint so subtle, so sight..." -Page 11
Touches
"He scrabbled at the golden butterfly with shaking fingers." -Page 12
"He held up a clod of dirt, trembling..." -Page 11
"He fumbled crazily at the thick slime on his boots." -Page 11
Sounds
"Sounds like music and sounds like flying tents filled the sky, and those were pterodactyls soaring with cavernous grey wings..." -Page 5
"There was a sound of thunder." -Page 12
Possible Theme
Really think things through before you do them because it could turn out for the worst.
"The muscles around his mouth formed a smile..." -Page 1
"The Monster, at the first motion, lunged forward with a terrible scream." -Page 7
""...and the smell of tar and an old sea salt..." -Page 3
