Please compare the house in "There Will Come Soft Rains," both in its normal operation and in its final hours, to a human.

In There Will Come Soft Rains, Ray
Bradbury used personification to make the house seem alive and very much in control of
things.   The house makes sounds humans would make.  Look at how it awakens the people,
look at when the kitchen makes food, look at the cleaning that occurs, and children's
hour in the nursery.  In each case, the house actually talks or acts in a way humans
would -  sleepy, angry, paranoid (when the bird lands on the window), excited.  The
house takes charge of every facet of the humans' lives  as well as the pet dog -- had
they still been living there.

At the end of the story, the
house takes on a nervous, frightened persona.  The house screams, "Fire!"  The shutters
"snap shut" demonstrating feat.  As "angry" flames move through the house, the mice
"squeak" and run around aimlessly.  Also, as the house "dies", a pump sighs and stops
and the sprinkler system ceases.  Eventually, the attic brain
"dies".

There are many, many more examples of
personification throughout this story.  Look for the things the house and things in the
house "talk", and how how house and its belongings demonstrate a variety of  emotions
throughout.