"There Will Come Soft Rains"

"There Will Come Soft Rains"

Multiple Choice

The rain that is promised in the poem and in the short story’s title, and that happens during the story, and mentioning that “dawn showed faintly in the east” are examples of what literary device? The rain has cleansing qualities and washes away bad things, and each new dawn brings with it a chance for a new start. Therefore, the rain and dawn are examples of ______________________.

• personification

• irony

• symbolism

• imagery

Multiple Choice

Why do authors use repetition in their works?

• for creativity

• for entertainment

• for the fun of it

• to drive a point home

Multiple Choice

“The breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh” is an example of __________________.

• personification and imagery

• imagery and symbolism

• alliteration and imagery

• metaphor and simile

Multiple Choice

Nature will recover and thrive again without humans is an example of the story’s ________________.

• symbols

• tone

• theme

• mood

Multiple Choice

In what point of view is the story told?

• Ray Bradbury's

• Third person

• First person

• second person

Multiple Choice

What is the setting?

• A town in California in August 2026

• Portland, Maine August 2026

• Allendale, California August 2026

• Davis, California, August 2016

Multiple Choice

What literary technique is Bradbury using in the following lines, “ The house shuddered” and “The front door sang quietly”?

• personification

• metaphor

• alliteration

• simile

Multiple Choice

The protagonist in “There Will Come Soft Rains” is ________________.

• the dog

• the house

• the McClellan family

• the voice recordings

Multiple Choice

The house was an altar with 10,000 attendants, big, small, servicing, attending in choirs. But the gods had gone away and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.”

Who or what are the attendants in the above quote?

• the people who are there to celebrate mass

• the people who live in the household

• the robot machines that wait on and serve the McClellan family

• the singer in the church’s choir

Multiple Choice

Examples of antagonists in “There Will Come Soft Rains” are

• the house and the thermal flash images

• the family and the dog

• the bomb and the fire

• the house and the fire

Multiple Choice

“The house was an altar with 10,000 attendants, big, small, servicing, attending in choirs. But the gods had gone away and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.”

Who are the “gods”?

• the Titans and Olympians

• the robot technology

• the ministers who lead the services

• the McClellan family

Multiple Choice

Mentioning “evil Baal”, the Sara Teasdale poem, and the Picassos and Matisses are all examples of what literary device?

• imagery

• hyperbole

• allusion

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

“The house was an altar with 10,000 attendants, big, small, servicing, attending in choirs. But the gods had gone away and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.”

The same quote from above is a comparison. What technique is it using?

• metaphor

• imagery

• hyperbole

• simile

Multiple Choice

What types of conflicts are there in the story?

• Person versus supernatural and person versus self

• Person versus nature and person versus technology

• Person versus nature and person versus person

• Person versus self and person versus technology

Multiple Choice

What literary technique is best represented in the following quote, “The rooms were acrawl with the small cleaning animals, all rubber and metal. They thudded against chairs, whirling their mustached runners, kneading the rug nap, sucking gently at the hidden dust”?

• simile

• hyperbole

• imagery

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

Which of the following themes best fits this story?

• Be careful what you wish for, because you may get it.

• Be careful what you wish for, because you may get it.

• Times are tough all over.

• Technology is completely awful and ruins everything

Multiple Choice

“The toast was like stone” is an example of ___________________

• simile

• alliteration

• imagery

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

The line from Teasdale’s poem, “Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, if mankind perished utterly” is support for the story’s _______________.

• mood

• tone

• imagery

• diction

Multiple Choice

The lines, “The clock ticked on, repeating and repeating its sounds into the emptiness” and “But no doors slammed, no carpets took the tread of rubber heels” help readers decide on the story’s _________________.

• tone

• diction

• imagery

• mood

Multiple Choice

The fact that the home’s technology was created by humans for humans, and that there are no humans left to use the technology is an example of ___________________.

• situational irony

• personification

• verbal irony

• dramatic irony