A sound of thunder scavenger hunt

similes

Metaphors

Foreshadowing

Personification

Touches

Smell

Sights

Sounds

Possible Theme

This makes Africa seem like Illinois."

all and everything cupping one in another like Chinese boxes

arms dangled out front, arms with hands which might pick up and examine men like toys

Eckels remembered the wording in the advertisements to the letter. Out of chars and ashes, out of dust and coals, like golden salamanders

Each lower leg was a piston

It closed its mouth in a death grin.

exposing a fence of teeth like daggers

It ran with a gliding ballet step, far too poised and balanced for its ten tons.

And the head itself, a ton of sculptured stone

"Take it easy, all he did was kick up some dirt."

He did not move. Eyes shut, he waited, shivering. He heard Travis breathe loud in the room; he heard Travis shift his rifle, click the safety catch, and raise the weapon.


. It closed its mouth in a death grin.

"It could reach up and grab the moon

He scrabbled at the golden butterfly with shaking fingers

He could feel them moving there, beyond the walls, almost, like so many chess pieces blown in a dry wind ....

He fumbled crazily at the thick slime on his boots

roses sweeten the air

smelling of the air, and there was a thing to the air, a chemical taint

Far birds' cries blew on a wind, and the smell of tarhe colors, white, gray, blue, orange, in the wall, in the furniture

man who was not quite the same man seated at this desk that was not quite the same desk

The colors, white, gray, blue, orange, in the wall, in the furniture

Sounds like music

The jungle was wide and full of twitterings, rustlings, murmurs, and sighs.

sounds like flying tents filled the sky,

and flowers the color of blood.

I think the theme is that you should be careful to what you do.