There Will Come Soft Rain Skills

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There are no human characters in this story

Since there are no living characters in this story, the setting of the automated house also functions as a character through an extended

form of personification- when something nonhuman is given human characteristics.

For example:
In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o’clock, time to
get up, time to get up, seven o’clock! as if it were afraid nobody would.

The verb sang is usually reserved for humans, not machines. Also, the idea that the house itself has emotions such as fear launches the personification that will be extended and deepened throughout the story.

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Math the type of personification to its description

• voice from the kitchen ceiling

• the weather box sang

• metal throat digested the breakfast

• the house had carefully inquired

• the house quivered at each sound

makes the house seem like it could speak

makes the house seem like it could sing

makes the house seem like it could eat

makes the house seem like it could think

the house seems like it feels emotions

• makes the house seem like it could speak

• makes the house seem like it could sing

• makes the house seem like it could eat

• makes the house seem like it could think

• the house seems like it feels emotions

Latin Root: -man-

-man-, which is derived from the Latin word manus, meaning “hand.

Find the meaning of the below words:


Manual


Manuscript


Manifest