“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.