All Summer In A Day Figurative Language

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“All Summer In A Day” By Ray Bradbury Sci-Fi. “All Summer In a Day” by Ray Bradbury is a story about a girl named Margot from Earth going to Venus where the people there haven't seen the sun before. Margot knows what the sun is and the people from Venus are jealous, so they shove her into a locker while the sun goes up in Venus. They remember her being locked in a locker and then let her out while feeling guilty. My claim is that the author used the two author's craft techniques, imagery and figurative language to establish the setting throughout the story. In the claim, I stated that the author used imagery to establish the setting within the story. We can see how Bradbury uses imagery to establish the setting in many parts of the story, …show more content…

It states “It had been raining for seven years; thousands upon thousands of days compounded and filled from one end to the other with rain, with the drum and gush of water, with the sweet crystal fall of showers and the concussion of storms so heavy they were tidal waves coming over the islands. A thousand forests had been crushed under the rain and grown up a thousand times to be crushed again.” Bradbury used many objects to describe the heavy storms and the transparent rain. Bradbury also uses imagery later on in the story in the middle of the third page when he describes when the sun finally came out and the difference it made. It states “It was as if, in the midst of a film concerning an avalanche, a tornado, a hurricane, a volcanic eruption, something had, first, gone wrong with the sound apparatus, thus muffling and finally cutting off …show more content…

The world is ground to a standstill. The silence was so immense and unbelievable that you felt your ears had been stuffed or you had lost your hearing altogether.” Bradbury uses many loud and destructive natural disasters to describe what you hear at all times while living on Venus. He describes the sound change being so contrasting that it felt like your ears had lost their hearing all together when the sun finally came out and the rain stopped. This shows the great change in the setting that happens when the rain stops and also shows how the kids living on Venus don’t know what clear weather is as it feels like they have lost all of their hearing when the weather is clear. Overall, Bradbury uses a lot of imagery to describe the setting of the story. In the claim, it also stated that Bradbury used figurative language to describe the setting and many important parts of the story. We can see Bradbury use figurative language many times throughout the story. For example, the sun is described with similarity as bright objects throughout the story, in the story it states “...and she knew they were dreaming and remembering gold or a yellow crayon or a coin large enough to buy the world with.” This connects to the claim because it sets the sun as a bright object that is rare and important to people in the story. Another example of this is

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