How Does Ray Bradbury Use Personification In There Will Come Soft Rains

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Ray Bradbury uses literary devices in all his works. In “There Will Come Soft Rains”, “Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed”, Fahrenheit 451, and “All Summer in a Day” Bradbury uses personification. Bradbury really likes to use personification throughout all of his stories. In “There Will Come Soft Rains”, he uses personification to refer to the house a lot. For example, “The house stood alone in a city of rubble and ashes.” The house was given the human capability to stand even though it can’t stand because it’s just the only thing left that isn’t destroyed. In “Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed”, he uses personification a lot to show that the main character thinks the planet will eat them alive or do something bad to them in general. For example,