Literary Devices in "All Summer in a Day"

Literary Devices

Metaphor - A metaphor is a comparison that states that one thing is another thing

• “She was an old photograph dusted from an album., whited away….”

Simile - A comparison using “like” or “as.”

• “...the blood smells like cotton candy at the fair.”

Repetition - Using the same word or phrase multiple times for emphasis.

• “All ponies have wings. All Ponies have horns. All Ponies can talk.”

Personification - Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things.

• “The lioness smiled at the hunter.”

Alliteration - The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words next to each other.

• “Zig-zag zombies, zooming to the zenith….”

Varied Sentence Structure - Using a combination of simple, compound, and complex sentences in a passage.

Descriptive Language - The use of adjectives, adverbs and descriptive verbs to add detail.

• “The Ponies are no taller than the girls, fat and bright as butterflies, with short, round-tipped unicorn horns and small fluffy wings.”