All Summer in a Day Implied Meanings and Literary Devices _

Read the excerpt from All Summer in a Day and answer the question below.

20 Margot stood alone. She was a very frail girl who looked as if she had been lost in the rain for years and the rain had washed out the blue from her eyes and the red from her mouth and the yellow from her hair. She was an old photograph dusted from an album, whitened away, and if she spoke at all her voice would be a gosht

• A. This is a metaphor that shows a comparison between Margot and what she looked like.

  B. This is a simile that shows a comparison between Margot and what she really was.

  C. This is personification that shows a human-like quality for being an old photograph.

  D. This is hyperbole that shows she was an exaggerated old photograph.

• Read the sentence from All Summer in a Day and answer the question below.

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

  What does the author mean in this sentence?

  A. The children were innocent and beautiful, but also eager to see the sun.

  B. The children were plants. `

  C. The sun nourishes plants and helps them grow.

  D. The sun hides itself until children look for it.

• The author uses multiple examples of figurative language in the passage to describe the sun. In three to five sentences, identify at least two of these instances and explain what is being compared in order to help the reader envision the scene.