What are the figures of speech in "All Summer in a Day"?

Ray Bradbury is a master of using figures of speech to make his writing more descriptive.  His use of metaphors, personification, similes, etc. enhances the reader’s experiences with his stories because they become so visual; and therefore, they are able to be imagined. 

Here are some examples from the story, “All Summer in a Day”.

Simile—“The children pressed to each other like so many roses, so many weeds, intermixed, peering out for a look at...

Ray Bradbury is a master of using figures of speech to make his writing more descriptive.  His use of metaphors, personification, similes, etc. enhances the reader’s experiences with his stories because they become so visual; and therefore, they are able to be imagined. 

Here are some examples from the story, “All Summer in a Day”.

Simile—“The children pressed to each other like so many roses, so many weeds, intermixed, peering out for a look at the hidden sun.”  Here, Bradbury is comparing the children to roses and weeds or good children and bad children.

Metaphor—“ . . . the endless shaking down of clear bead necklaces upon the roof.”  Bradbury compares the continuous raindrops to clear beads on a necklace.

Metaphor--She was an old photograph dusted from an album, whitened away, and if she spoke at all her voice would be a ghost.  Bradbury is describing Margot, the main character, by relating her to a dusty album and a ghost.

Simile--"It’s like a penny," she said once, eyes closed. "No, it's not!" the children cried. "It's like a fire," she said, "in the stove."  These are Margot’s comparisons of the sun to a penny and a fire in a stove.

“They stopped running and stood in the great jungle that covered Venus, that grew and never stopped growing, tumultuously, even as you watched it. It was a nest of octopuses, clustering up great arms of flesh-like weed, wavering, flowering in this brief spring. It was the color of rubber and ash, this jungle, from the many years without sun. It was the color of stones and white cheeses and ink, and it was the color of the moon.”  This excerpt is full of figures of speech including personification when Bradbury compares the jungle to a nest of octopuses.