Background
Type of bomb that ended WWII
Nuclear Bomb
narrator of "By the Waters of Babylon"
John
cheerful
the two groups in "Babylon"
Hill People and Forest People
Behind it whirred angry mice
onomatopoeia
War that followed WWII between US & USSR
Cold War
priest
number of people in McClellan family
4 - two adults and two children
the more knowledgeable group (according to the narrator)
Hill people
The house shuddered
personification
Author of "There will come Soft Rains"
Ray Bradbury
main character in "Soft Rains"
the house
the parents are ___ when the tragedy occurs
working in the yard
John's motivation for going to the City of the Gods
knowledge
The house gave ground as the fire in ten billion angry sparks
hyperbole
Author of "By the Waters of Babylon"
Steven Vincent Benet
The city of the Gods in actually ___ in "Babylon"
New York City
The cause of the fire
a tree crashes through the window, knocking over cleaning solvent
the first building John enters with stars on the ceiling
Grand Central station
The water pelted windowpanes, running down the charred west side where the house had been burned evenly free of its white paint
imagery
Benet wrote "By the Waters of Babylon" after this war
World War I
Setting of "Soft Rains"
Allendale, California
the destruction of mankind
A supernatural element of "Babylon"
John's visions
“The fire backed off, as even an elephant must at the sight of a snake"
simile