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A Sound Of Thunder (similes ("There was a sound like a gigantic…
A Sound Of Thunder
similes
"There was a sound like a gigantic bonfire burning all of Time," p. 1
"Like a stone idol, like a mountain avalanche, Tyrannosaurus fell." p. 12
"...to twist them in half, to crush them like berries, to cram them into its teeth and its screaming throat." p. 11
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"He could feel them moving there, beyond the walls, almost, like so many chess pieces blown in a dry wind . . ." p. 16
Metaphors
"Each thigh was a ton of meat, ivory, and steel mesh." p. 9
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"And the head itself, a ton of sculptured stone, lifted easily above the sky." p. 9
"Its eyes rolled, ostrich eggs, empty of all expression save hunger." p. 10
Imagery/Sensory Details
Sound
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"...he heard Travis shift his rifle, click the safety catch, and raise the weapon. There was a sound of thunder." p. 18
"A sound of thunder. Out of the mist, one hundred yards away, came Tyrannosaurus rex." p. 9
Sight
"...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." p. 1
"Its armored flesh glittered like a thousand green coins. The coins, crusted with slime, steamed." p. 10 + 11
"Embedded in the mud, glistening green and gold and black, was a butterfly, very beautiful and very dead." p. 17
Touch
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"He felt the trembling in his arms and he looked down and found his hands tight on the new rifle." p. 3
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Smell
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"...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." p. 16
"...the smell of tar and an old salt sea, moist grasses, and flowers..." p. 5
Personification
"It towered thirty feet above half of the trees, a great evil god..." p. 9
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"The Monster twitched its jeweler’s hands down to fondle at the men," p. 11
Foreshadowing
"If Deutscher had gotten in, we’d have the worst kind of dictatorship." p. 2
"Stay on the Path. Don’t go off it. I repeat. Don’t go off. For any reason! If you fall off there’s a penalty." p. 4
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