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SS, There will come soft rains
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English
9th Grade
01/09/2009

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what does the following quote mean:
the man and wife and their two children lived at ease there and lived happily even while the world trembled
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they were not paying attention to the problems in their world
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life is fragile and can end without warning is represented by
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five spots of paint on the house wall
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what does the following quote mean:
and then one day the world shookl and there was an explosion followed by ten thousand explosions and red fire in the sky and a rain of ashes and radioactivity, and the happy times were over
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it was the end of the human world
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what type of story is "soft rains"
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futuristic
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what is symbolized in the poem?
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the impermanence of all things manmade
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"the entire face of the house was black save for five places, here, the silhoutte, in paint of a man mowing a lawn, here a woman bent to pick flowers, still farther over their images burned on wood in one titanic instant a small boy, hand flungin the air, higher up the image of a thrown ball and opposite him a girl, her hands raised to catch a ball which never came down" is the storys..
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denoument
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protagonist
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the house
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point of view is..
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third person omniscient
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