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A Sound of Thunder Short Story Flashcards - Quizlet 3
A Sound of Thunder Short Story Flashcards - Quizlet 3
Destroy, wipe out
Expendable
Worth sacrificing in order to gain something
Primeval
Primitive, of the earliest times
Resilient
Able to return to their original shape after stretched or
compressed
Sheathed
A case or covering for a sword, dagger, or the like
Subliminal
Below the level of consciousness
Taint
Two in fact, contaminate, corrupt, or spoil
Teeming
Swarming or overflowing
Undulate
Move in a wavelike motion
What company does eckels visit?
Time Safari Inc
What are the penalties for disobeying instructions?
You have to give them another $1,000 plus possible
government action
About what is Eckels thankful?
The Keith won the election
Why did some people want you want to do if Deutscher had
won the election and why?
They wanted to go live in 1492
What does The man behind The desk tell Eckels what
happened last year that makes Eckels think about going on
the Safari?
6 of our leaders and a dozen hunters were killed last year
Who is the Safari leader?
Travis
How many people besides Eckels are on the trip? Name
them.
4. Travis Safari leader , Lesperance assistance, Billings
Hunter, Kramer Hunter
What does Travis tell Eckles is the best way to kill a
dinosaur?
Put your first two shots into the eyes, if you can, blind them,
and go back into the brain
When the hunters arrive at their destination, what does
Travis tell them hasn't happened yet in history?
Christ wasn't born yet, Moses didn't go to the mountain to
talk with God, the pyramids are still in the Earth, and
Alexander Caesar, Napoleon, and Hitler don't exist
How many years did the men travel?
60,002,055 years
What is the antigravity metal path and why must the men
stay on it?
It is the Path, it keeps you from touching the world of the
past in anyway
Verbal irony
A little butterfly can't change big things
What happened to the machine and the men's clothes
before they made their journey?
They were sterilized
Why do the men wear oxygen helmets?
So they can't introduce the bacteria into the ancient
atmosphere
What is unique about the dinosaurs that the men can
shoot?
Lesperance studied them, the ones that we're going to die,
and he marked them with red paint
What is a paradox?
A paradox is something that has or seems to have
contradictory qualities
What does eckels jokingly pretend to do?
Aimed his rifle playfully into the sky
How does the reader know Eckles is afraid?
Eckels said that he was shaking like a kid
What does Eckels say when he sees the size of the
dinosaur?
It could reach up and grab the moon
How do the men know which dinosaurs they can shoot?
They are marked with red paint
Where was Eckels on his way when he stepped off the path
To the time machine
What do Billings and Kramer do after the dinosaur is dead?
They threw up
What does lesperance offer Billings and Kramer that they
turned down?
A trophy picture with the dinosaur
What does Travis tell Eckels they're going to do to him?
Let Eckels there
What does Travis make Eckels do in order to go back with
them?
Collect the bullets from inside the dinosaur's mouth
What does Eckels notice about the sign on their return?
The sign has changed
What does Eckels find on the bottom of his boots?
A dead butterfly
What does Eckels learn about the election?
Now, Deutscher had one
The last line of the story says, "There was a sound of
thunder." Explain the significance of this line.
Just like the battlecry of the dinosaur when it was shot,
Eckels made a sound of thunder when he was shot
SETTING Very beginning
A. Place
B. Time
C. Weather conditions
D. Social conditions
A. In the Time Safari Inc
B. 2055
C. None
D. Keith was elected President
SETTING On the trip
A. Place
B. Time
C. Weather conditions
D. Social conditions
A. Prehistoric location; jungle
B. 60,002,050 years in the past
C. Warm and humid
D. No people
SETTING Upon return
A. Place
B. Time
C. Weather conditions
D. Social conditions
A. In the Tyme Sefari Inc building
B. 2055 altered
C. None
D. Deutscher was elected President
PLOT
A. Exposition
B. Inciting Incident
C. Rising Actions
D. Climax
E. Falling Action
F. Resolution
A. Time Safari Inc
2055 Eckels
Keith elected President
B. Team traveled back in time
C. Eckels is afraid and goes back to the time machine
The rest of the team kills the dinosaur
Eckels has to retrieve bullets to be able to come back
home
D. The team returns and the sign is different and Eckels
finds dead butterfly
E. Deutscher is President
F. Travis shot Eckels
Man vs. Man
Travis kills Eckels
Man vs. Nature
Eckels vs. The dinosaur
Man vs. Society
None
Man vs. Himself
Eckels vs. Fear
Round
Eckels
Dynamic
Eckels
(Beginning he was a bragger then at the end he was a
coward)
Static
Travis
(He is very strict and rule following)
Flat
Office Guy, Kramer, and Lesperance
POINT OF VIEW
Limited because there is a narrator following Eckels
throughout the story
Dramatic irony 1
We knew the past was going to be changed because they
talked so much about Keith
Dramatic irony 2
When Travis tells everyone not to step off the path, and
Eckels steps off the path
Situational irony
When Travis shoots Eckels
THEME
The smallest events can have the greatest impacts
Foreshadowing 1
When they said not to leave the path, and Eckels leaves the
path
Foreshadowing 2
They spent so much time talking about the election, we
knew something was going to change
Foreshadowing 3
When the story talked about how one little thing could
change the future, and Eckels steps on the butterfly and
changes the election