Literary Devices in "A Sound of Thunder"

"There was a sound like a gigantic bonfire burning all of Time..."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

"Out of the chars and ashes, out of dust and coals, like golden salamanders, the old years, the green years, might leap"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

"Out of the chars and ashes, out of dust and coals, like golden salamanders, the old years, the green years, might leap"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

"moons eat themselves opposite to the custom, all and everything cupping one in another like Chines boxes..."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

"moons eat themselves opposite to the custom, all and everything cupping one in another like Chines boxes..."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

"Eckels swayed on the padded seat, his face pale, his jaw stiff. He felt the trembling in his arms, and he looked down and found his hands tight on the new rifle"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Imagery

"Every hunter that ever lived would envy us today. This makes Africa seem like Illinois."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Imagery

"He indicated a metal path that struck off into green wilderness, over streaming swamp, among giant ferns and palms."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Imagery

"They sat in the ancient wilderness. Far birds' cries blew on a wind, and the smell of tar and an old salt sea, moist grasses, and flowers the color of blood."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Imagery

"Step on a mouse and you leave your print, like a Grand Canyon, across Eternity."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9