Sound of Thunder

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Similes

Metaphor

“The Machine howled.” (Pg 3)

"fresh death" (Pg 2)

"roses sweeten the air" (Pg 2)

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"examine men like toys" (Pg 9)

"There was a sound like a gigantic bonfire burning" (Pg 1)

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Personification

(Pg 3) "The Machine roared."

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Foreshadowing

Sensory/ Imagery detail

“I’m shaking like a kid.”
(Pg 9)

"Out of chars and ashes, out of dust and coals, like golden salamanders" (Pg 3)

"Like an airplane hitting an air pocket." (Pg 7)

Smells

"Eckels stood smelling 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 18)

"roses sweeten the air" (Pg 2)

"the smell of tar and an old salt sea, moist grasses, and flowers the color of blood."
(Pg 5)

Touch

"You felt the Machine jump just before we stopped?" (Pg 8)

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"He felt the trembling in his arms and he looked down and found his hands tight on the new rifle." (Pg 3)

Sight

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

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"It towered thirty feet above half of the trees, a great evil god, folding its delicate watchmaker’s claws close to its oily reptilian chest. Each lower leg was a piston, a thousand pounds of white bone, sunk in thick ropes of muscle, sheathed over in a gleam of pebbled skin like the mail of a terrible warrior. Each thigh was a ton of meat, ivory, and steel mesh. And from the great breathing cage of the upper body those two delicate arms dangled out front, arms with hands which might pick up and examine men like toys, while the snake neck coiled. And the head itself, a ton of sculptured stone, lifted easily above the sky. "
(Pg 9)

"The Monster lay, a hill of solid flesh." (Pg 12)

"They saw themselves mirrored." (Pg 11)

Smells

"He heard Travis shift his rifle, click the safety catch, and raise the
weapon. There was a sound of thunder."
(Pg 18)

"There was a sound like a gigantic bonfire burning all of Time" (Pg 1)

"Within, you could hear the sighs and murmurs as the furthest chambers of it died, the organs malfunctioning, liquids running a final instant from pocket to sac to spleen, everything shutting off, closing up forever." (Pg 12)

THEME(S)

Just because it's not a big deal at the time doesn't mean it's not going to be in the long run.

Just because it's not small to you doesn't mean it wont be small to others.

Everything has and affect on something.

“Eckels!” He took a few steps, blinking, shuffling. “Not that way!”
this is saying that he stepped of the path without directly telling us. (Pg 11)

At the end of the story it says " he heard Travis shift his rifle, click the safety catch, and raise the weapon.
There was a sound of thunder." (Pg 18) This is hinting that he shot his rifle

(Pg 4 )"Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them."