There Will Come Soft Rains - Literary Elements

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Across
  1. 3. another term for the burned outline of an image
  2. 5. author of the poem within the story
  3. 7. humans create technology but are, then, defeated by that technology
  4. 9. room in which the fire starts
  5. 10. the question "When is enough enough?" speaks to the _____ of human progress
  6. 13. another name or word for the introduction of the plot within a short story
  7. 15. the glow of the ruined city
  8. 17. one very important theme of the story is that nature is _____ or doesn't care
  9. 20. the mood portrayed in this work by Bradbury
Down
  1. 1. in paragraph 61 there is only "smoke and _____"
  2. 2. room in which the walls come alive
  3. 4. within the story, the House "sighing" is an example of
  4. 6. When did the nuclear war alluded to within the story actually occur?
  5. 8. the paragraph in which conflict is introduced (class notes)
  6. 10. human weakness proven through the power of Nature
  7. 11. the House is fueled by this type of a battery
  8. 12. tiny robots that clean the House
  9. 14. Allendale
  10. 16. this causes the peak of the action within the story
  11. 18. in what decade was this story written within the 1900's
  12. 19. perhaps the most damaging type of conflict is man vs _____