1. From: “There Will Come Soft Rains”
Literary elements
From: “There Will Come Soft Rains”

2. Choose the element that best fits the example
“The voice-clock sang “‘Tick-tock, seven o’clock…’”
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Foreshadowing
Theme

3. Choose the element that best fits the example
“…where hot water whirled them…the dirty dishes were dropped”
Setting
Personification
Alliteration
Allusion

4. Choose the element that best fits the example
“The house was an altar with ten thousand attendants…”
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Allusion

5. Choose the element that best fits the example
The incinerator is compared to “evil Baal”
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Allusion

6. Choose the element that best fits the example
“mice hummed out as softly as blown gray leaves”
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Allusion

7. Choose the element that best fits the example
“The incinerator glowed suddenly and a whirl of sparks leaped up the chimney.”
Setting
Personification
Alliteration
Allusion

8. Choose the element that best fits the example
Technology must be developed very carefully, or it may destroy those who created it.
Foreshadowing
Setting
Theme
Allusion

9. Choose the element that best fits the example
“There Will Come Soft Rains” takes place in California in the year 2026
Foreshadowing
Setting
Theme
Symbolism

10. Choose the element that best fits the example
The beginning of “There Will Come Soft Rains,” frequently references “the empty house”
Foreshadowing
Personification
Theme
Symbolism

11. Choose the element that best fits the example
The spreading fire in “There Will Come Soft Rains” represents the limits of technology.
Foreshadowing
Personification
Theme
Symbolism