Answer:
1: appositive: a famous science fiction writer
Noun: ray bradbury
2: appositive: a short story
Noun: “the foghorn”
3: appositve: the narrator of the short story
Noun: Johnny
4: appositive: Johnny’s friend
Noun: mcdunn
5: appositive: a mournful moan
Noun: the foghorn sound
6: appositive: a hundred foot dinosaur
Noun: the monster
7: appositive: a lonely echo of the foghorn
Noun: the monsters cry
Explanation:
The meaning of this idiom is that you should never feel hopeless when times get hard or difficult because difficult times always lead to better days. The difficult times are like dark clouds that blocks the sun. When we look at the edges of the cloud more closely, we can see the sun shining there like a silver lining.