All Summer in a Day | English

Welcome to another post on my blog. Today, I completed another task for Engish. First, we had to read a short story, "All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury. After reading the story, we had to answer a few questions:

1. Find 3 words you don’t know the meaning of. Look them up and write the definitions in your post.
• Gush - Flow out something in a rapid and large stream.
• Concussion - A violent shock as from a heavy blow.
• Tatting - A kind of knotted lace made by hand with a small shuttle, used chiefly for trimming.
2. Discuss the Exposition of the story -- what are the characters, setting, and mood?
• Characters - 9-year-old students
• Setting - Venus
• Mood - Margot was sad when no one accepted her and what she knew about the sun. She remembered the sun, the way the sun was, and the sky when she was four in Ohio.
3. List and label one metaphor, one simile, and one example of sensory language from the story.
• Metaphor -  It had been raining for seven years
• Simile - The children pressed to each other like so many roses, so many weeds, intermixed, peering out for a look at the hidden sun
• Sensory Language - "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 come over the islands. A thousand forests had been crushed under the rain and grown up a thousand times to be crushed again."
4. List and label an example of show not tell from the story.
• "They stopped running and stood in the great jungle that covered Venus, that grew and never stopped growing, tumultuously, even as you watched it. It was a nest of octopi, clustering up great arms of fleshlike weed, wavering, flowering in this brief spring. It was the colour of rubber and ash, this jungle, from the many years without sun."