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A Sound of Thunder Scavenger Hunt (Similes ("glittered like a…
A Sound of Thunder
Scavenger Hunt
Similes
"glittered like a thousand green coins" (page 8)
"like the mail of a terrible warrior" (page 8)
"like a gigantic bonfire" (page 1)
"like a mountain avalanche" (page 8)
"like golden salamanders" (page 1)
Metaphors
"each thigh was a ton of meat" (page 6)
"a ton of sculptured stone" (page 6)
"each lower leg was a piston" (page 7)
"the rifle in his hand seemed a cap gun" (page 7)
"as if someone had shut a door" (page 6)
Foreshadowing
"A little error here would multiply in sixty million years, all out of proportion." (page 4)
"Not knowing it, 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)
Personification
"its scream fell to a murmur" (page 3)
"the sign on the wall seemed to quaver" (page 1)
Touches
"He held out his hand. Each held a number of steel bullets." (page 10)
"He fumbled crazily at the thick slime on his boots" (page 11)
"found his hands tight on the new rifle" (page 2)
Sounds
"full of twitterings, rustlings, murmurs, and sighs" (page 6)
"lost in shriek and lizard thunder" (page 8)
"Sounds like music and sounds like flying tents filled the sky" (page 5)
Sights
"green wilderness, over streaming swamp, among giant ferns and palms" (page 3)
"The colors, white, gray, blue, orange, in the wall, in the furniture, in the sky beyond the window" (page 11)
"After the avalanche, a green peace. After a nightmare, morning." (page 8)
Smells
"The stink of raw flesh blew down the wilderness" (page 7)
"engulfed them in the stench of slime and old blood" (page 8)
"the smell of tar and an old salt sea, moist grasses, and flowers the color of blood" (page 3)
Theme
A possible theme for this story would be to think about things before you do them.