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"A Sound of Thunder" (Similes ("all and everything cupping…
"A Sound of Thunder"
Similes
"all and everything cupping one in another like Chinese boxes, rabbits into hats," (pg. 1)
"Out of chars and ashes, out of dust and coals, like golden salamanders, the old years, the green years, might leap" (pg. 1)
Sounds like music and sounds like flying tents filled the sky, and those were pterodactyls soaring with cavernous gray wings, gigantic bats of delirium and night fever.
Suddenly it all ceased, as if someone had shut a door. (pg. 6)
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(Theme) 1 small thing can change way to many things, butterfly effect.
Personification
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"Some dinosaurs have two brains, one in the head, another far down the spinal column." (pg.
Foreshadowing
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Its purpose is to keep you from touching this world of the past in any way. Stay on the Path. Don't go off it. I repeat. Don't go off. For any reason! (pg. 3)
Metaphor
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. It was like standing by a wrecked locomotive or a steam shovel at quitting time, all valves being released or levered tight (pg. 8)
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They gazed back at the ruined Monster, the stagnating mound, (pg .8)
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Imagery/ Sensory Details
Touch
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he heard Travis shift his rifle, click the safety catch, and raise the weapon. (pg. 11)
Sound
The jungle was wide and full of twittering, rustlings, murmurs, and sighs. (pg. 6)
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The Monster roared, teeth glittering with sun. (pg. 7)
Smell
Eckels stood smelling of the air, and there was a thing to the air, a chemical taint so subtle, so slight, that only a faint cry of his subliminal senses warned him it was there. (pg. 10)
Sight
Each lower leg was a piston, a thousand pounds of white bone, sunk in thick ropes of muscle, (pg. 6)
Out of the mist, one hundred yards away, came Tyrannosaurus Rex. (pg. 6)
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