Ray Bradbury uses a lot of different techniques to create tension in his short story, "A Sound of Thunder". The techniques used are adjectives, adverbs, verbs, metaphors, similes, short sentences and he varies the sentence structures to create tension. The first technique Ray Bradbury uses is Adjectives. He uses them in lists of three, "... great oiled, resilient, striding legs." This emphasizes that part of the description and it has more effect on the reader because …showed first 75 words of 456 total…

…showed last 75 words of 456 total…trees and bushes, its taloned feed clawing damp earth, leaving prints six inches deep wherever it settled its weight." An example of a sentence with the subordinate clause first is: "Out of the mist, one hundred yards away, came Tyrannosaurus Rex." Overall Ray Bradbury uses language to create tension well by using many different techniques like adjectives, adverbs, verbs, metaphors, similes, short sentences and sentence varying. These together can make a story much more interesting.