There Will Come Soft Rains

 Which of the following describes the tone of the house's announcements?

• pleasant
• lonley
• sarcastic/nasty
• threatening

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CCSS.L.8.5C

CCSS.RL.8.4

Why is no one home?

•  The house is too expensive to operate.
• Everyone is at work or school.
• Everyone has been killed.
•  The house is for sale. 

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RI.8.8

What type of figurative language is the following sentence?
"In the kitchen, the breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh . . ."

• metaphor
• onomaoteopoeia
• simile
• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

 What happened next after the tree bough crashes through the kitchen window? 

• The dog whines because it is hungry. 
• The robot mice came to clean the floor.
• A bottle of solvent breaks open; the house catches on fire.
• Breakfast is prepared.

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.W.8.3A

How does the author arrange the chronological order in this story? 

• Use of a clock which announces the time in each new section. 
• He numbers each section of the story. 
• He discusses how the dog's hunger increases.
• He uses a robotic voice that serves as a calendar.

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CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.W.8.3A

CCSS.W.8.3C

What type of figurative language is the following sentence?
"Somewhere, sighing, a pump shrugged to a stop."

• simile
• metaphor
• assonance
• alliteration

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is the story's setting? 

•  Sometime in the near future.
• August 4, 2026, after a nuclear blast. 
• May 5, 2012 
• In the distant future.

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CCSS.RL.8.2

How does the house seem to come alive? 

•  The house tries to save its own life. 
•  The house cries when its inhabitants leave.
• The house has a full range of human emotions. 
• The house can do anything a person can do.

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.W.8.9A

What is unusual about all of the characters in this story? 

• They are very patient. 
• They are not human. 
• They work hard. 
• They are all machines/ robots.

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.2

What type of figurative language is the following sentence?
"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." 

• simile
• metaphor 
• alliteration
• hyperbole

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CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.5