A Sound Of Thunder Literary Devices

When authors write stories, they put a lot of thought into their story. They used different techniques to make the story more interesting. The techniques are what build the story. In the short stories “The Boar Hunt,” by José Vasconcelos and “A Sound of Thunder,” by Ray Bradbury, the authors uses characterization, imagery, and suspense to build their story.

The authors uses characterization to build information about the characters. In “The Boar Hunt,” Vasconcelos started the men out as antagonists. He wrote “Not being Englishmen, we did not play cards” (Vasconcelos 157). This puts an impression out that they are rude people. In “A Sound of Thunder,” Bradbury build Eckels character when the time machine took off. “Eckels swayed on the padded seat, his face pale, and his jaw stiff,” (Bradbury 318). This tells you that Eckels was nervous but at the same time he was being smart about going on the hunt in the first place. These two authors uses characterization in different ways. They are alike in many ways as well; one way they are similar is the fact that

In “The Boar Hunt,” Vasconcelos uses imagery at the point where the boars started digging at the ground under them. Vasconcelos mentioned, “The boars were painstakingly continuing the work which they had engaged in throughout the entire night” (Vasconcelos 161). In “A Sound of Thunder” Bradbury used imagery in describing the Tyrannosaurus rex. He used a lot of detail to describe the T-rex. “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,” (Bradbury 321). Just by this one sentence, you already have a visual of what the T-rex looks like. The authors obviously have different ways to create an image in your head. They both put effort in describing the animals in detail, they put the picture of the animal and the animal actions in your