“A Sound of Thunder” – Figurative Language

Identify the figure of speech or stylistic device being

illustrated by the
quotes below.
1. (36) Out of chars and ashes, out of dust and coals, like
golden
salamanders.
2. (37) Time was a film run backward.
3. (39) Each lower leg was a piston.
4. (41) A thousand pounds of white bone…sheathed over in a
gleam of
pebbled skin, like the mail of a terrible warrior.
5. (41) Exposing a fence of teeth like daggers
6. (41) Its armored flesh glittered like a thousand green
coins.
7. (42) Like a stone idol, like a mountain avalanche,
Tyrannosaurus fell.
8. (42) It was like standing by a wrecked locomotive or a
steam shovel at
quitting time.
9. (43) Eckels turned slowly to regard the primeval garbage
dump, that hill
of nightmares and terror.