“All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury is a short story about a group of schoolchildren living on the planet Venus. The children at school eagerly await the predicted appearance of the sun, a brief phenomenon that occurs only once every seven years on Venus, a planet of seemingly endless rain.An example of a simile in "All Summer in a Day" is the children being pressed up against each other "like so many roses." An example of a metaphor is where Margot is described as "an old photograph dusted from an album." Personification can be found when the cupboard door is said to "tremble" from Margot's beating.The main theme in “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury is bullying, which is caused by jealousy and envy. Interestingly enough, Ray Bradbury has chosen to explore this theme in the context of a future generation that has the chance to travel between planets as a consequence of evolution.Examples of imagery in "All Summer in a Day" are abounding and can be found in his descriptions of Margot and in the rich descriptions of Venus's incessant rainfall and jungle in bloom. This imagery-rich style is one of the critical features that defines Bradbury's authorial voice.In All in a summers day Bradbury Creates Situational Irony. Situational irony is when something opposite of what you think will happen actually happens. The situational irony in this short story is Margot not being able to see the sun.
