There Will Come Soft Rains Review

How does the setting of the passage influence the theme?

• The dog coming into the abandoned house shows no one exists.

• The house moving through the daily motions shows how technology continues no matter what.

• The robotic rats prove there is nothing left alive.

• The shadows of the homeowners shows what happened to them.

Part A: The author’s word choice in paragraph 10 evokes a sense of...

• Melancholy

• Fear

• Destruction

• Anticipation

Part B: Which words from the paragraph best support the answer from Part A? (the feeling of paragraph 10)

• Recognized, tracking

• Angry, inconvenience

• Gone to bone, covered with sores

• Whirred, fleshy

Which choice best describes what happened to the characters in the story?

• The occupants aren’t home right now.

• The occupants disintegrated in an atomic blast.

• The occupants will be coming home to a mess.

• The occupants have never lived in the home.

Which sentences from There Will Come Soft Rains best supports the inference that the homeowners have perished?

• The five spots of paint - the man, the woman, the children, the ball - remained. The rest was a thin charcoaled layer.

• The front door recognized the dog voice and opened.

• The dog, once huge and fleshy, but now gone to bone and covered with sores, moved in and through the house, tracking mud.

• Here the silhouette in paint of a man mowing a lawn. Here, as in a photograph, a woman bent to pick flowers. Still farther over, their images burned on wood in one titanic instant, a small boy, hands flung into the air; higher up, the image of a thrown ball, and opposite him a girl, hands raised to catch a ball which never came down.