There Will Come Soft Rains

What is the story's setting?

• Sometime in the near future.

• August 4, 2026, after a nuclear blast.

• In the distant future.

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CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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

• They are all very patient

• They work hard

• They are all machines/robots

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

How do you know the story is told in third person point of view?

• The narrator is not a character in the story

• The narrator tells about a time in the future

• The narrator uses descriptive language

Why is the first sentence of the story ironic?

• The clock says ticktock instead of actual ticking

• It really isn't 7:00

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

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Which of the following describes the house's announcements?

• pleasant

• lonely

• sarcastic/nasty

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Why is no one home?

• Everyone has been killed

• The house is for sale

• Everyone is at work and school

What happened to the family that lived in the house?

• They decided to go on vacation, but never came back

• They moved to another neighborhood

• They died in a nuclear explosion

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

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

• A bottle of solvent breaks open; the house catches on fire.

• The robot mice came to clean the floor.

• The dog whines because it is hungry.

How does the house seem to come alive?

• The house has a full range of human emotions.

• The house cries when its inhabitants leave.

• The house tries to save its own life.

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Which sentence contains personification?

• The quenching rain ceased.

• At ten o'clock the house began to die.

• The room was ablaze in an instance.

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4