In the short story of “A Sound of Thunder”, by Ray Bradbury, suspense is built through simile, conflict, and metaphor. The first way the author creates suspense through simile, to describes how things looked like. To begin with a simile describes what something look like. After the hunters find the t-rex, they open fire on it, and they kill it, and when and when the t-rex falls, they describe it by saying “Like a stone, like a mountain avalanche Tyrannosaurs fell “and that's how they use simile to describe what something looks like by saying it looks like that when it falls. The second way the author creates suspense is through conflict, and it describes what might happen to the characters. My evidence for conflict is when Eckles comes