There Will Come Soft Rains By Ray Bradbury

Humankind needs to be more careful about the way we use technology so that it doesn’t destroy us. Bradbury conveys this perfectly in his short story There Will Come Soft Rains. The way Bradbury does this is, Bradbury uses imagery to have the reader understand the point in an observant way, and Bradbury also uses personification to make the technology lively, and lastly Bradbury uses allusion to connect and compare the situations, Sara Teasdale brought up in her poem There Will Come Soft Rains.

In There Will Come Soft Rains, Bradbury uses imagery, imagery helps create a mental image and also helps the reader procure a point. The story tells of a house that carries on after its owners are dead. The house is controlled by technology and
doesn't grasp that the people are deceased. The reader doesn't either until Bradbury provides us with this image. "Here the silhouette in paint of a man mowing a lawn...a ball which never came down" the people in this "titanic instant" when the nuclear bomb hit. the protected house captured their last moments alive. The dog dying would also have to be an example of his Sensual and visual imagery, for example, the dog frothed at the mouth, lying at the door, sniffing, its eyes turned to fire. and another example would be, the incinerator glowed suddenly and a whirl of sparks leaped up the chimney. Authors use imagery to get a point across, here the point is about the danger of relying on technology is clearly made. We create things to make our live easier, but can only hope to avoid being the victims of our creations. the imagery of the dog also shows

In this short story, the most used technique used would be the personification, where you give inanimate objects human-like characteristics. This is interesting, considering the house is clear of humans; making the house and its mechanical components anthropomorphic, it seems to both fill the house with life and emphasize its emptiness at the same time.