There Will Come Soft Rains (FMS)

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. 

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

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

• metaphor
• onomaoteopoeia
• simile
• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

 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.

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.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

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

• simile
• metaphor
• assonance
• alliteration

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

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." 

• simile
• metaphor 
• alliteration
• hyperbole

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Why does the first sentence turn out to be ironic? 

• It really isn't 7:00. 
• 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."

• No one appreciated the machines' hard work 
• Cold food and dirty dishes give the machines' hard work
• Machines scraped the cold food into a garbage disposal. 
• The breakfast and the dirty dishes had to be cleaned up.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

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

• It asks why no-one is responding.
•  It becomes louder. 
• It turns itself off. 
• It continues doing it's job. 

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.

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4