A Sound of Thunder

Personification

Sensory Details

Smells

Sights

Sounds

Touches

1 Possible Theme

Do what you are told

His face was cold. Pg. 17

¨He could feel them moving there, beyond the walls, almost, like so many chess pieces blown in a dry wind.¨ Pg. 16

¨A warm phlegm gathered in Eckels’ throat; he swallowed and pushed it down.¨ Pg. 1

¨Eckels stood smelling the air...¨ Pg. 16

¨...roses sweeten the air...¨ Pg. 2

¨...and the smell of tar and an old salt sea, moist grasses...¨ Pg. 5

Eckels glanced across the vast office at a mass and tangle, a snaking and humming of wires and steel boxes, at an aurora that flickered now orange, now silver, now blue. Pg. 1

¨...suns rise in western skies and set in glorious easts...¨ Pg. 2

Eckels swayed on the padded seat, his face pale, his jaw stiff. Pg. 3

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. Pg. 8

Somewhere, someone must have been screaming one of those whistles that only a dog can hear. Pg. 16

¨There was a sound of thunder.¨ Pg. 17

Similes

¨...all and everything cupping one another like Chinese boxes...¨ Pg. 2

After a long time, like a sleepwalker he shuffled out along the Path. Pg. 14

¨Out of chars and ashes, out of dust and coals, like golden salamanders...¨ Pg. 1

¨...sounds like flying tents filled the sky...¨ Pg. 8

¨There was a sound like a gigantic bonfire burning all of Time...¨ Pg. 1

Metaphors

Time was a film run backward. Pg. 4

Their sound was lost in shriek and lizard thunder. Pg. 11

The jungle was wide and full of twitterings, rustlings, murmurs, and sighs. Pg. 9

¨...moons eat themselves opposite to the custom...¨ Pg. 2

Foreshadowing

“We’re lucky. If Deutscher had gotten in, we’d have the worst kind of dictatorship. Pg. 2

“Does this safari guarantee I come back alive?”
“We guarantee nothing,” said the official, “except the dinosaurs.” Pg. 1

¨Each lower leg was a piston...¨ Pg. 9