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it was august 21, 2017. it was daytime. but for a short time in some places, it was as dark as night! what caused this? there was a total solar eclipse.

a solar eclipse happens when the moon passes between the sun and earth. the moon casts a shadow. it falls on earth. sometimes, the sun is partly blocked. but on august 21, there was a total solar eclipse. the moon almost fully blocked the sun.

scientists were excited. the sun is usually hard to study. it's too bright. but during solar eclipses, scientists can study the sun's corona. that's the outside layer of the sun's atmosphere. it's much hotter than the sun's surface. scientists want to learn why.

studying the corona could also scientists understand solar winds. these are streams of particles. they flow out from the sun's upper atmosphere. solar winds can change planets' atmospheres. scientists want to understand what happens. total solar eclipses could them do this.

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification