A Sound of Thunder Scavenger Hunt

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"I'm shaking like a kid."

"There was a sound like a bonfire."

"This makes Africa seem like Illinois."

"...like an airplane hitting an air pocket."

Similes

"...like golden salamanders, the old years, the green years, might leap.

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"pterodactyls soaring with cavernous gray wings, gigantic bats of delirium and night fever."

"A sound of thunder" = the shotgun blast

"The jungle was the entire world forever and forever."

"Trees exploded in clouds of leaf and branch."

Metaphors

"The monster twitches its jeweler's hands down..."

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"The machine roared."

Personification

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"Not that way!"

Foreshadowing

"...I'm warning you, Eckels, I might kill you yet. I've got my gun ready."

"Time steps aside..."

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"Warm phlegm gathered in Eckels' throat."

"The sign burned in this momentary darkness...:

Touches

"Eckels swayed on the padded seat."

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"The stink of raw flesh..."

"...the stench of slime and old blood."

Smells

"...the smell of tar and an old salt sea..."

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"It towered thirty feet above half of the trees..."

"...pebbled skin..."

Sights

"...a thousand pounds of white bone..."

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"Sounds like music and sounds like flying tents filled the sky..."

"The rifles cracked again."

Sounds

"Their sound was lost in shriek and lizard thunder."