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The Sound of Thunder (Simile ("Like a stone idol, like a mountain…
The Sound of Thunder
Simile
"Like a stone idol, like a mountain avalanche,"
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hyperbole
"And the head itself, a ton of sculpted stone."
This describes the T-Rex's head in an exaggerated state to scare the reader and give them an idea of what it was really like.
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Verbal Irony
"So what? Travis snorted quietly, well, what about the foxes that'll need the mice to survive!"
In this quote, Travis is explaining to Eckel about what can happen if he kills the living things. He does this using verbal irony.
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Conflict
"Not knowing it, we might kill an important animal,...,thus destroying an important link in a growing species."
This shows the conflict because if any of the hunters were to step off the path they could destroy a species. This shows the importance t stay on the path.
Direct Characterization
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This describes the president who won the election before he went into the past, but it changed when he came back and so did everyone else's point of view on him.
Personification
"The jungle was wide and full of twitterings, rustlings, murmurs, and signs."
This quote shows how the author gave the jungle human like characteristics to make the jungle sound like it was really alive.
Symbolism
"Embedded in the mud, glistening green and gold and black, was a butterfly, very beautiful and very dead."
In this quote, the butterfly was symbolizing life.
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