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Introducing the Story
Literary Focus: Style
Reading Skills: Cause and Effect
A Sound of Thunderby Ray Bradbury
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A Sound of Thunderby Ray Bradbury
A Sound of Thunderby Ray Bradbury
Who controls the past controls the future. —George Orwell
A Sound of ThunderIntroducing the Story
It’s the year 2055. Eckels, a wealthy hunter, wants to travel back in time to shoot a ferocious dinosaur. But he gets in over his head when he books passage with Time Safari, Inc.
• This story explores the possibility that even tiny changes to the environment of the past can drastically alter the future.
T-rex lived during the late Cretaceous Period. What other life forms were around then?
insects similar to today’s
marine invertebrates
A Sound of ThunderIntroducing the Story
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the first flowering plants
Style—the particular way a writer uses language.
A Sound of ThunderLiterary Focus: Style
• Style is also created through the sentence patterns writers use. Sentences can be short or long, simple or complicated.
• Writers use diction, or word choice, to create style. For example, some writers use long, elegant words; others prefer shorter, everyday words.
A Sound of ThunderLiterary Focus: Style
The use of vivid images and figurative language often plays a part in a writer’s style.
• Images—words and phrases that appeal to the senses.
• Figurative language—imaginative comparisons between seemingly unlike things.
Ray Bradbury tells this science-fiction story in a lush style.
A Sound of ThunderLiterary Focus: Style
• The setting and the figurative language shape a tense and suspenseful mood, or atmosphere.
• He uses vivid images and imaginative figurative language to create an exotic setting.
As you read “A Sound of Thunder,” notice the elements of Bradbury’s style.
A Sound of ThunderLiterary Focus: Style
• Images: Which of your senses do they appeal to? What feelings do they evoke for you?
• Diction and sentence patterns: How do they create a distinctive writing style?
• Figurative language: How does it help create the setting? the mood?
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The events in a plot are interconnected, like links in a chain: One cause leads to an effect, which causes another effect, and so on.
A Sound of ThunderReading Skills: Cause and Effect
A power outage occurs at 2:30 A.M.
Cause
Valeria’s alarmdoes not go off.
Effect
Valeria’s alarmdoes not go off.
Cause
Valeria is late For school.
Effect
The plot of “A Sound of Thunder” is based on a theoretical cause-and-effect chain that might look something like this:
A Sound of ThunderReading Skills: Cause and Effect
Time-travelinghuman steps on butterfly in past.
This butterflydoes not pass on its genes
Butterflies and the ecosystemis altered.
Humans evolvein differentenvironment.
Moderncivilization is altered.
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