# 1 List the characters in the Time Machine and what their titles are # 1 List the characters in the Time Machine and what their titles are. (you should have 5)
# 2 What is the time that the characters are in when they are in their present day? What is the name of the place they start their trip from?
# 3 What are the people going back in time to do?
#4 Make a prediction about what will happen to the time travelers.
# 5 Why should a traveler pay attention to the long speech that Travis gives?
# 6 What does Eckels do that irritates Travis when they arrive in the prehistoric jungle?
# 7 How do we know that Eckels is afraid of the dinosaur before he even sees it? What does he say?
# 8 Where do you think the title of this story comes from?
# 9 Study the hunters’ reactions to their trophy # 9 Study the hunters’ reactions to their trophy. Do you think the hunt was worth it to them?
# 10 Do you think Travis is overreacting to the fact that Eckels stepped off the path? Why or Why not?
# 11 Based on what Travis has said about Time Travel, do you think it would be possible for him to leave Eckels in the past? Why or Why not?
# 12 Is this sound of thunder the same as the earlier one in the story # 12 Is this sound of thunder the same as the earlier one in the story? What is this sound of thunder?
Figurative Language Simile – a comparison using “like” or “as” Ex: Her smile was like a ray of sunshine. Metaphor – a direct comparison without “like” or “as” Ex: Her smile was a ray of sunshine. Imagery – using vivid, colorful, descriptive language that paints a picture for the reader Ex: The clouds danced in the baby blue sky.
Figurative Language Find at least 5 examples of figurative language in the story. (Similes, Metaphors, or Imagery) Write down the quote from the story and the page number it can be found on. How does the use of figurative language add to a story?
Simile, Metaphor, or Imagery? “There was a sound like a gigantic bonfire burning all of time.” “Out of chars and ashes, out of dust and coals, like golden salamanders, the old years…might leap.” “Time was a film run backwards” “Far birds’ cries blew on the wind, and the smell of tar and an old sea salt, moist grasses, and flowers the color of blood”
Simile, Metaphor, or Imagery? 5. “Sounds like music and sounds like flying tents filled the sky” 6. “…those pterodactyls soaring with cavernous gray wings, gigantic bats of delirium and night fever” 7. “It towered thirty feet above half of the trees, a great evil god, folding its delicate watchmaker’s claws close to its oily reptilian belly”
Simile, Metaphor, or Imagery? 8. “Each lower leg was a piston, a thousand pounds of white bone, sunk in thick ropes of muscle” 9. “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” 10. “And the head itself, a ton of sculptured stone, lifted easily toward the sky”
Simile, Metaphor, or Imagery? 11. “Its mouth gaped, exposing a fence of teeth like daggers” 12. “It closed its mouth in a death grin” 13. “It ran with a gliding ballet step, far too poised and balanced for its ten tons” 14. “Its armored flesh glittered like a thousand green coins” 15. “The coins, crusted with slime, steamed”
Simile, Metaphor, or Imagery? 16. “The stink of raw flesh blew down the wilderness” 17. “Trees exploded in clouds of leaf and branch” 18. “The Monster twitched its jeweler’s hands down to fondle at the men, to twist them in half, to crush them” 19. “Like a stone idol, like a mountain avalanche, Tyrannosaurus Rex fell”
Simile, Metaphor, or Imagery? 20. “It was like standing by a wrecked locomotive or a steam shovel at quitting time, all valves being released or levered tight”