All Summer In A Day Introduction

All Summer In A Day Introduction

Multiple Choice

What is a metaphor?

• a comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"

• a comparison of two things

• a comparison of two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as"

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What is imagery?

• a photograph in a novel

• visually descriptive or figurative language in literary works

• a type of personification

• The authors tone or mood in a literary work

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What is a simile?

• a comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"

• a comparison of two things

• a comparison of two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as"

Figurative Language

​In the short story "All Summer In a Day", Bradbury uses powerful imagery to detail a group of children's experience on a new planet. His use of metaphors and similes allow the reader to understand the foreign environment the children have grown up in.

Multiple Choice

"​The children pressed to each other like so many roses, so many weeds, intermixed peering out for a look at the hidden sun."

What kind of figurative language is this?

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

Open Ended

"​The children pressed to each other like so many roses, so many weeds, intermixed peering out for a look at the hidden sun."

How do these words by the author create a feeling of anticipation? Why does the author create this tone? 

Multiple Select

What do the following phrases have in common? 

Drum and gush of water

Sweet crystal fall of showers

Concussion of storm

• They are all similes

• They are all metaphors

• They are all a form of imagery

• They are all descriptions of rain

Multiple Choice

What do these metaphors tell us about the setting of the story? 

• It occasionally rains

• It is always noisy and raining

• The rain is calming and peaceful

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"The sun was like a lemon in the sky"

What kind of figurative language is this? 

• Simile

• Metaphor

Open Ended

One of the characters writes "The sun is a flower. It blooms for just one hour"

What kind of figurative language is this? Why?

Multiple Choice

"The sun was the color of bronze and the sky around it was a blue tile" 

What is this an example of? 

• metaphor

• Simile

​The Author

• ​Ray Bradbury wrote this short story in 1954

• ​He is the author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Veldt

• ​Bradbury is known for his writing in various genres such as science fiction, fantasy, realistic fiction, horror and mystery.

Open Ended

Predict what you think this story will be about.