There Will Come Soft Rains by Sara Teasdale

Why is the poem important when reading the story?

• Because the poem is in the story

• Because the same person wrote both

• Because the poem has similar themes to the story

• Because the story is based off the poem

Who wrote the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains"?

• Robert Frost

• Shel Silverstein

• Sara Teasdale

• Edgar Allan Poe

What is the overall tone of this story?

• Horrific

• Joyful

• Humorous

• Ironic

Why is the opening of the story ironic? "In the living room the voice-clock sang, 'Tick-tock, seven o'clock, time to get up, seven o'clock!' as if it were afraid that nobody would."

• It isn't really 7:00 AM

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

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

• The clock says tick tock instead of actually ticking.

What is the overall tone of the story?

• Horrific

• Joyful

• Humorous

• Ironic

Which of the following is a theme from the story?

• Technology is amazing and should be used whenever possible.

• Eat lots of bacon.

• Nuclear weapons are essential to survival.

• Humans should be careful with technology and it's potential to cause harm.

Which of the following lines gives readers a hint about how the world ended?

• A falling tree bough crashed through the kitchen window. Cleaning solvent, bottled, shattered over the stove. The room was ablaze in an instant.

• It quivered at each sound, the house did. If a sparrow brushed a window, the shade snapped up.

• At night the ruined city gave off a radioactive glow which could be seen for miles.

• Heat snapped mirrors like the first brittle winter ice. And the voices wailed. Fire, fire, run, run, like a tragic nursery rhyme...

What theme does this poem and the story share? There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pools singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white; Robins will wear their feathery fire, Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn Would scarcely know that we were gone.

• Both share the theme that nature is indifferent to humans destroying themselves.

• Both share the theme that life would carry on if humans were to destroy themselves in war.

• Both share the theme that nature is beautiful and springtime is filled with rain.

• Both share the theme that nature doesn't like to be disturbed.

What is the main theme of the poem 'There Will Come Soft Rains' by Sara Teasdale?

• A) The beauty of nature

• B) The inevitability of war

• C) The resilience of humanity

• D) The indifference of nature to human extinction

Which literary device is predominantly used in 'There Will Come Soft Rains' by Sara Teasdale?

• A) Metaphor

• B) Personification

• C) Simile

• D) Hyperbole