Across
- 4. The soft rain in the poem symbolizes this
- 7. The ending shows technology is ultimately this
- 10. The figurative language device describing the house
- 11. Human fragility contrasted with technology
- 15. extinguish (a fire.)
- 17. An imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice
- 18. Machines designed to do human work
- 19. The story’s tone
- 20. Will Come Soft Rains – Poem recited by the house
- 22. Word meaning “stubbornly resistant”
- 23. Technology-driven dwelling
- 24. Type of warfare central to the story’s background
- 25. Symbol of technology continuing without humans
- 26. House personification makes it feel like this
- 27. The cause of the family’s death
- 30. The sickly animal that wanders into the house
- 31. The story’s genre
- 34. Poet quoted in the story
- 37. House’s battle with fire shows this conflict
- 38. The story critiques human dependence on this
- 40. Description of the dog’s body after death
- 41. The onomatopoeia describing the stove
- 42. The family’s fate symbolizes this kind of destruction
- 43. Theme of nature’s survival after humanity’s end
Down
- 1. The daily meals the house prepares
- 2. The last wall announces the time at this hour
- 3. Ironic element: technology survives, but not ___
- 5. The house’s mechanical cleaners
- 6. Device that reads poems aloud
- 8. Main type of conflict: man vs. ___
- 9. What the electric eyes represent
- 12. Fire is described as this kind of enemy
- 13. Word for “constant repeating sound”
- 14. Location of the story’s house
- 16. The house represents this aspect of human progress
- 21. The house fights the fire but is ultimately this
- 23. Main character of the story
- 28. Shiny surface of the house’s walls
- 29. Word for “completely destroyed”
- 32. A warning to future generations
- 33. The final disaster that destroys the house
- 35. Remains of the family visible on the wall
- 36. The nuclear war makes human existence seem this
- 39. The story warns about dangers of this