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.

(The entire section contains 300 words.)