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328 - simile
"Then, like mysterious invaders, they popped into their burrows."
This compares the mice to "mysterious invaders" and helps you better understand what they looked like.

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"as if it were afraid"
// Personification // This shows that something bad has occurred, and that is why the house is afraid.

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"The house stood alone in a city of ruble and ashes" p. 328
(personification)
This personification shows that the city has been destroyed and there is no one there.

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Personification: "The voice-clock sang"
Page:326
Gives the house personification, knowing what happens later in the story, this gives off the significance that the technology is still alive. This sets it up for the turning point and change that happens later on in the story.

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Metaphor- Pg. 328 Lines 55-56
"But the gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly"

This gives the humans an image of being gods while the house and the technology inside were made to serve these gods

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Imagery- "At night the ruined city gave off a radioactive glow which could be seen for miles."
Pg. 327
This shows what has happened to the city, a nuclear blast happened and left the city in ashes and rubble. It enhances the plot of the story because throughout the story the technology is still operating even though there was a terrible disaster.

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Metaphor - Pg. 328, "The house was an altar.... but the gods were gone." This is comparing the house to an alter and the humans to gods that were never at their altar to worship

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Personification- Pg. 331
"At ten o'clock the house began to die."
The use of personification in this line helps to show how the house began to crumble and perish because of the intense fire.

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Metaphor: Pg. 328, Line 54. 'The house was an altar".
This is showing that the house is very important,  but it lacks reason without people, just like an altar without people.

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Dialogue: "Mrs. McClellan, which poem would you like this evening?" p.330

This effects the text by showing how advanced the technology has become, it's to the point to where the house is capable to have conversations with the residents of the home.

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Setting  "Today is August 4 ,2026..."(page 326). It effect the story by it explains what year it is, which gives us a hint of what technology will be like.

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Setting  "Today is August 4 ,2026..."(page 326). It effect the story by it explains what year it is, which gives us a hint of what technology will be like.

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Jacob Brown

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pg. 328
Imagery
"...now gone to bone and covered with sores...
This enhances the story because you can better image the dogs appearance after the nuclear blast that killed off all the humans.

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Personification- "Stove hissed a sigh"
This helps enhances the house as a character

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"and the rain tapped on the empty house, echoing."
personification pg. 326 line:18
The author is giving human qualities to the rain.

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Setting- "in the city of Allendale, California.." Line 9 Page 326. The effect tells us that the house is in Allendale California

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Simile- "At eight-thirty the eggs were shriveled and the toast was like stone." (line 21) This enhances the story by helping you to visualize the setting and what's going on in the house at this time in the day.

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Setting
P. 333
"Today is August 5, 2026, today is August 5, 2026, today is..."
This shows that even after everything that happened, the technology put in place still kept going, regardless of there being no people.

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"It fed upon Picassos and Matisses in the upper halls."
Allusion PG. 332
This helps show the way the fire burns away at the paintings.

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"...the five spots of paint- the man, the woman, the children, the ball," (328). This is a metaphor comparing what is left of the family to spots of paint. This is one of the multiple times when the author emphasizes the insignificance of humans.

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Personification- "In the living room the voice-clock sang.

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-Imagery-line 8,Pg 328
."a dog wined shivering,on the front porch.
The dog was in pain and was cold.