At sound of thunder uses a lot of imagery and figurative language. Including amazing imagery of touch, sense of brightness and metaphor. Eckels felt his eyelids blink over his stare, and the sign burned in this momentary darkness... Eckels felt his eyelid, this is the sense of touch. The momentary darkness suggested that the author used the sense of brightness. The sign wasn't actually burning so it is a metaphor which transferres the quality of fire to the sign. The story used a lot of imagery to make the story more exiting. All the simile and metaphor makes this a successful short story.