Ray Bradbury/Dystopian

Which of the following describes the tone of the house's announcements? -There Will Come Soft Rains

• pleasant

• lonley

• sarcastic/nasty

• threatening

Why is no one home?-There Will Come Soft Rains

• The house is too expensive to operate.

• Everyone is at work or school.

• Everyone has been killed.

• The house is for sale.

What type of figurative language is the following sentence?

"In the kitchen, the breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh . . ."-There Will Come Soft Rains

• metaphor

• onomaoteopoeia

• simile

• hyperbole

What happened next after the tree bough crashes through the kitchen window? -There Will Come Soft Rains

• 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? -There Will Come Soft Rains

• 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.

What type of figurative language is the following sentence?

"Somewhere, sighing, a pump shrugged to a stop."-There Will Come Soft Rains

• simile

• metaphor

• assonance

• alliteration

What is the story's setting? -There Will Come Soft Rains

• Sometime in the near future.

• August 4, 2026, after a nuclear blast.

• May 5, 2012

• In the distant future.

How does the house seem to come alive? -There Will Come Soft Rains

• 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.

What is unusual about all of the characters in this story? -There Will Come Soft Rains

• They are very patient.

• They are not friendly.

• They work hard.

• They are all machines/ robots.

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." -There Will Come Soft Rains

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• hyperbole