Kevin Hoskinson said, "It is perhaps the most vivid image Bradbury's cold war novels offer of the synthetic hell man makes for himself from the raw materials of science, technology, and irrationality?.  Human civilization was able to achieve tremendous technological development especially during the 21^st century.  Cell phones, TVs, cars, and nuclear reactors were the inventions which were considered as creative and unique for the global society.  However, these items are killing the planet and slowly destroying the Earth.  Rad Bradbury sends a warning to the readers that the fate of the humans depends on the fate of the house if the current status quo is not changed.  He uses mainly three literary elements which are personification, foreshadowing, and suspense.  As what ?There Will Come Soft Rains? implies, enormous scientific development deteriorated people and the surrounding natural environment. 

             Personification which is a way to give ordinary human actions and characteristics is used throughout the whole story.  For example, the stove is described as "In the kitchen the breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh and ejected from its warm interior.  Yet, it is impossible for breakfast stove to make a hissing sound in the reality.  Rain is personified by the statement "And the rain tapped on the empty house, echoing".  Though rain cannot tap on the house in the literary term, he gave a sensation that it came into contact with the house as it fell.  Another method shown in the story is foreshadowing.  Foreshadowing is basically clues that indicate events that will happen later. "Ticktock, seven o' clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o' clock! As if it were afraid that nobody would" calls to mind that something was going different and bad phenomena might happen.  "Smoke and silence. A great quantity of smoke? is prefiguring the fact that the house has been given up and died.  Last technique is suspense, increasing the excitement of the reader to surmise what is going to happen next.  "Once huge and fleshy, but now gone to bone and covered with sores? creates wonder whether or not the dog will survive.  "The fire burst the house and let it slam flat down, puffing out skirts of spark and smoke" stimulates the readers about the result of the burning house.