A Sound of Thunder Scavenger Hunt
Metaphors
Similes
"Each lower leg was a piston."
"Each thigh was a ton of meat, ivory and steel mesh."
"A great evil god"
"The head itself, a ton of sculptured stone"
"Its armored flesh glittered like a thousand green coins"
"To crush them like berries"
"Teeth like daggers"
"It was like standing by a wrecked locomotive"
"Men like toys"
Foreshadowing
Personification
"An aurora that flickered now orange, now silver, now blue"
"A touch of the hand might do it, the merest touch of a hand"
"Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them"
Sight
Smell
Touch
Sound
"It came on great oiled, resilient, striding legs."
"It towered thirty feet above half of the trees."
"The light of the machine on his thin face."
"The machine howled"
"Its scream fell to a murmur"
"The machine roared"
"The stink of raw flesh blew down the wilderness
"The stench of slime and old blood"
"Smell of old tar and an old salt sea"
"Aimed his rifle playfully"
"Reptilian hands feeling the air"
"His hands tight on the new rifle"
Theme
Don't change anything that might cause another
"Like golden salamanders, the old years, the green years, might leap"
"This makes Africa seem like Illinois."