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WorksheetsThere Will Come Soft Rains
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 3hrs 37mins
In the living room the voice-clock sang, "Tick-tock, seven o'clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o'clock!" as if it were afraid that nobody would."
What is unusual about all of the characters in this story?
They are very patient.
They are human.
They work hard.
They are all machines/ robots.
If the house is the protagonist, who/what was the antagonist in the story?
the house
the fire
the dog
the house and thermal flash images
"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."
What figurative language is used throughout the entire story?
Hyperbole
Symbolism
Personification
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.
