Comprehension Questions for “There Will Come Soft Rains”

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Reason for no one being home?

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Everyone has been killed.

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Figurative language in: "In the kitchen, the breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh . . ."

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onomaoteopoeia

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Chronological arrangement in the story:

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Use of a clock announcing time in each section.

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Identify the figurative language: "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."

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simile

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Type of figurative language: "It quivered at each sound, the house did."

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personification

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Identify the sentence with personification.

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At ten o'clock the house began to die.

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Theme of "There Will Come Soft Rains":

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While technology has benefits, it can also destroy; be cautious in creation.

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Protagonist in "There Will Come Soft Rains"

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the house

Front

Tone of house's announcements?

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pleasant

Front

Describe the family's life.

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orderly