All Summer in a Day - English

 A Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury

Find 3 words you don't know the meaning of. Look them up and write the definitions.

1. Solemn - Formal and Dignified. 

2. Dimly - With a faint light: not brightly.

3. Tumultuously - Making a uproar or loud, confused noise. 

Discuss the Exposition in the story - What are the characters, setting and mood. 

Characters: Margot, William and Children 

Setting: Planet Venus

Mood: Rain, Sadness, Stagnant and Depressive   

List and label one Metaphor, one Simile, and one example of Sensory language from the story.

Metaphor - I think the sun is a flower, that blooms for just one hour.

Simile - They stood as if someone has driven them, like so many stakes, into the floor.

Sensory Language - "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 all noise, all of the blasts and repercussions and thunders, and then, second, ripped the film from the projector and inserted in its place a beautiful tropical slide which did not move or tremor."

List and label an example of show not tell from the story.

"And once, a month ago, she had refused to shower in the school shower rooms, had clutched her hands to her ears and over her head, screaming the water mustn’t touch her head."

"The children lay out, laughing, on the jungle mattress, and heard it sigh and squeak under them resilient and alive. "

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