How does the house seem to come alive?

The house tries to save its own life.

The house cries when its inhabitants leave.

The house has a full range of human emotions.

The house can do anything a person can do.

Why does the first sentence turn out to be ironic?

There is no one in the house to get up or hear the clock.

The clock says tick tock instead of actually ticking.

The story is set in the future, but clocks are still used.

Reread the "At eight -thirty the eggs ..." paragraph. What is the best paraphrase? "At eight-thirty the eggs were shriveled and the toast was like stone. An aluminum wedge scraped them into the sink, where hot water whirled them down a metal throat which digested and flushed them away to the distant sea. The dirty dishes were dropped into a hot washer and emerged twinkling dry."

Machines scraped the cold food into a garbage disposal.

No one appreciated the machines' hard work

Cold food and dirty dishes give the machines' hard work

The breakfast and the dirty dishes had to be cleaned up.

How does the voice clock respond to the fact that no one reacts to it?

It asks why no-one is responding.

What happened to the family who lived in this house?

They died in a nuclear explosion.

There are no clues about the family's current location.

They moved to another neighborhood.

They decided to spend a weekend away from home.

Which sentence contains imagery? (senses)

Gentle sprinkler rain filled the house with falling light.

This was the one house left standing.

After a long wait, the door swung down.

The front door heard the dog voice and opened.

"The rooms were acrawl with the small cleaning animals, all rubber and metal." Paraphrase

The house was full of small, robotic animals cleaning it.

Rubber cleaning animals were busy.

Animals filled the room and cleaned them.

The rooms were made of rubber and metal.

Which sentence contains personification?

At ten o'clock the house began to die.

The room was ablaze in an instance.

The wall sprays let down showers of mechanical rain.

Who was the antagonist in the story?

the house and thermal flash images

The following is a line from Sara Teasdale's poem. "And frogs in the pools singing and night, And the wild plum trees in tremulous white. " What do the words in red, have to do with the Bradbury short story?

It refers to the walls of the outside of the house where the silouettes of the family are burned into the wall.

It refers to the walls of the living room before it was set on fire.

It refers to the walls of the children's room during nap time.

It refers to the stark white kitchen walls.

Which of the following themes best fits "There Will Come Soft Rains"?

While technology has many benefits, it also has the power to destroy, so be careful what you create

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

Technology is awful an ruins everything.

Theme: Which best illustrates the theme of the poem There Will Come Soft Rains?

Mankind is the creature on Earth most likely to destroy itself.

People are terrible stewards of the Earth and nature could do much better without mankind.

Mankind should be careful lest their decisions lead to the environmental ruin of everything on Earth.

People should only fight just and righteous wars.

There Will Come Soft Rains

Authored by Molly Shoemaker

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

15 mins • 1 pt

Which of the following describes the tone of the house's announcements?

pleasant

lonley

sarcastic/nasty

threatening

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

15 mins • 1 pt

Why is no one home?

The house is too expensive to operate.

Everyone is at work or school.

Everyone has been killed.

The house is for sale.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.1

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

15 mins • 1 pt

What type of figurative language is the following sentence?
"In the kitchen, the breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh . . ."

metaphor

onomaoteopoeia

simile

hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What happened next after the tree bough crashes through the kitchen window?

The dog whines because it is hungry.

The robot mice came to clean the floor.

A bottle of solvent breaks open; the house catches on fire.

Breakfast is prepared.

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

How does the author arrange the chronological order in this story?

Use of a clock which announces the time in each new section.

He numbers each section of the story.

He discusses how the dog's hunger increases.

He uses a robotic voice that serves as a calendar.

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

15 mins • 1 pt

What type of figurative language is the following sentence?
"Somewhere, sighing, a pump shrugged to a stop."

simile

metaphor

assonance

alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is the story's setting?

Sometime in the near future.

August 4, 2026, after a nuclear blast.

May 5, 2012

In the distant future.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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There Will Come Soft Rains

Which of the following describes the tone of the house's announcements?

Why is no one home?

What type of figurative language is the following sentence?
"In the kitchen, the breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh . . ."

What happened next after the tree bough crashes through the kitchen window?

How does the author arrange the chronological order in this story?

What type of figurative language is the following sentence?
"Somewhere, sighing, a pump shrugged to a stop."

What is the story's setting?

How does the house seem to come alive?

What is unusual about all of the characters in this story?

What type of figurative language is the following sentence?
"The house shuddered, oak bone on bone, its hard skeleton cringing from the heat, its wire, the nerves revealed as if a surgeon had torn the skin off to let the red veins and capillaries quiver in the scalded air."

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There Will Come Soft Rains

Which of the following describes the tone of the house's announcements?

Why is no one home?

What type of figurative language is the following sentence?"In the kitchen, the breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh . . ."

What happened next after the tree bough crashes through the kitchen window?

How does the author arrange the chronological order in this story?

What type of figurative language is the following sentence?"Somewhere, sighing, a pump shrugged to a stop."

What is the story's setting?

How does the house seem to come alive?

What is unusual about all of the characters in this story?

What type of figurative language is the following sentence?"The house shuddered, oak bone on bone, its hard skeleton cringing from the heat, its wire, the nerves revealed as if a surgeon had torn the skin off to let the red veins and capillaries quiver in the scalded air."

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What type of figurative language is the following sentence?
"In the kitchen, the breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh . . ."

What type of figurative language is the following sentence?
"Somewhere, sighing, a pump shrugged to a stop."

What type of figurative language is the following sentence?
"The house shuddered, oak bone on bone, its hard skeleton cringing from the heat, its wire, the nerves revealed as if a surgeon had torn the skin off to let the red veins and capillaries quiver in the scalded air."