Sound of Thunder (Paragraph) Published

The jungle was the entire world forever and forever

The Sound of Thunder is a short story written by Ray Bradbury, in it, there is a lot of imagery of sound and similes. 

The Sound of Thunder uses a lot of imagery of sound to make the reader "hear" what the characters are hearing in the book,it also uses a lot of similes to describe the setting and the characters surroundings. 

"The jungle was high and the jungle was broad and the jungle was the entire world forever and forever"

 "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"

This quote uses similes to portray the imagery of sound. The quote compares the pterodactyls squawks to the sound of flying tents. It are the pterodactyls are "gigantic bats of delirium and night fever". This quote uses an extended metaphor to describe the seemingly never ending jungle. The jungle just goes on and on and on.

In conclusion, the author uses imagery to make the readers "hear" what the characters are hearing and. the author also uses similes to compare the dinosaurs to something we can relate to.