There Will Come Soft Rains - Literary Elements

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Across
  1. 5. the paragraph in which the reader learns what has happened to the city
  2. 6. When did the nuclear war alluded to within the story actually occur?
  3. 8. tiny robots that clean the House
  4. 9. the House is compared to this in paragraph 55
  5. 10. the paragraph that references "The Veldt"
  6. 11. room in which the walls come alive
  7. 12. within the story, the House "sighing" is an example of
  8. 15. humans create technology but are, then, defeated by that technology
  9. 18. author of the poem within the story
  10. 20. human weakness proven through the power of Nature
Down
  1. 1. the glow of the ruined city
  2. 2. room in which the fire starts
  3. 3. Allendale
  4. 4. one very important theme of the story is that Nature is _____ or doesn't care
  5. 7. references the indifference of Nature
  6. 9. this causes the peak of the action within the story
  7. 13. in what decade was this story written within the 1900's
  8. 14. another term for the burned outline of an image
  9. 16. the House selects the poem at __________
  10. 17. the mood portrayed in this work by Bradbury
  11. 19. the House is fueled by this type of a battery