All Summer in a Day

After finishing "The Narrative" tasks we come to another into which we change our focus from "The Merchant of Venice"- Shakespear[The term's focus] to a short story by Ray Bradbury. The story titled 'All Summer in a Day'; speculative and science fiction in which we are told a story of the once in every 7 years experience of a group of children in Venus.

Tasks:

Find 3 words you don’t know the meaning of. Look them up and write the definitions in your post.

Discuss the Exposition of the story -- what are the characters, setting, and mood?

List and label one metaphor, one simile, and one example of sensory language from the story.

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

Publish your post with an image.

Words: 

Tumultuously: In a riot-like manner, an uproar, excited and loud.

Slackening: Decreasing in speed or reduction in intensity.

Tatting: An onomatopoeia that is used to describe the sound that makes of the drum.

The exposition of the story begins by setting up the scene in which the children were excited for the sun to rise and come out. As such it is then explained how the sun only "blooms" for an hour every 7 years. This is because of where the story takes place. It states the narrative on the planet of Venus, playing also on how in this world travelling between planets is possible.  The protagonist of the story is introduced to us in a manner of that can be described as her being solitary. Margot. In the midst of all the children-students, Margot was seemingly alone. As well, unlike most other Margot believed in the sun, believed that it would come out. Whereas the other children question the event and how the sun would awake. They were all--like their world's weather--dim, dim about expectations and dim attitudes towards the sun and dim about Margot.

Metaphor: I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.

Simile: They stood as if someone had 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

Show Not Tell: They walked slowly down the hall in the sound of cold rain. They turned through the doorway to the room in the sound of the storm and thunder, lightning on their faces, blue and terrible. They walked over to the closet door slowly and stood by it. Behind the closet door was only silence. They unlocked the door, even more slowly, and let Margot out.