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Definition of Metaphor
A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two different things by saying that one thing is the other. The comparison in a metaphor can be stated explicitly, as... read full definition
A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two different things by saying that one thing is the other. The comparison in a metaphor... read full definition
A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two different things by saying that one thing is the other... read full definition
Key Examples in A Sound of Thunder
Metaphors
Explanation and Analysis—Primeval Garbage Dump:
As a punishment for stepping off the path, Mr. Travis forces Eckels to retrieve the bullets from the dinosaur carcass in exchange for passage back to 2055. Before Eckels returns to the jungle, he uses a metaphor to illustrate its peril:
Eckels turned slowly to regard the primeval garbage dump, that hill of nightmares and terror.
Related Themes:
Explanation and Analysis—The Tyrant Lizard:
When the hunting group first encounters the Tyrannosaurus, the narrator amplifies the sheer physicality of the Monster with a series of metaphors:
Unlock with LitCharts A+Each leg was a piston, a thousand pounds of white bone, sunk in thick ropes of muscle. [...] And the head itself, a ton of sculptured stone, lifted easily upon the sky. [...] Its eyes rolled, ostrich eggs, empty of all expression save hunger.
