"There Will Come Soft Rains" Review

How do we as readers know that the family in the story is dead?

• They forgot to take the dog on a walk

• The silhouette on the west side of the house

• The mice could not find the family

• The house told us they were missing

Answer explanation

"The charred west side where the house had been burned... The entire west face of the house was black, save for five places. Here the silhoutte in paint of a man... woman..."

The house being the speaker of the story as well as having feelings exemplifies what literary device?

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Similie

What is personification?

• An extreme exaggeration

• Using like or as to compare two things

• Giving human characteristics to non-human/living objects

• A repetition of a sounds

What are examples of personification in the story that you can remember?

Why is the house personified in the story?

• To expand on how unimportant humans are

• To show how technology has advanced

• Since there are no characters, the house has to tell the story

• To enforce how great man-kind is doing

What is the main idea/central plot of the story?

• The dog knocked over a candle and burned the house down

• The world ends from a nuclear explosion

• A scientist created amazing technology

• An AI house is destroyed after an atomic bomb

Answer explanation

How was the house destoryed?

Why was Sara Teasdale's title "There Will Come Soft Rains" borrowed and included in Ray Bradybury's short story? (choose three)

• They have the same theme

• It shows that nature will prevail

• It helps to further the story's theme

• It opens society's eyes to how great technology is

Dystopian stories are usually written as

• Criticism

• Mockery

• Warnings if society continues the way it is

• All of the above

Why did Ray Bradbury write this dystopia?

• To show how great technology is and how it can improve life

• To warn about the dangers of technological advancements

• A warning to take care of the environment before its too late

• To show readers what 2026 will look like

Why is the dog important to the story? (Two)

• To further the personification that the house had feelings

• To show that the house was repulsed nature and all things connected to it

• To show the house no longer has purpose after the family dies

• To show that the family loved animals