When the narrator states, There was something coming to her (Chopin 2), it is a clear example of foreshadowing.

Candy clearly shows regret over his actions: "I ought to have shot that dog myself" (Steinbeck 180).

Wordsworth uses personification to describe how the daffodils were "Tossing their heads in sprightly dance." (12)

Clearly the children feel unsure about their freedom. "The feeling of liberty sat uneasily on most of them" (Jackson 1).

Plath uses repetition throughout the poem: "I do it do it feels like hell. / I do it so it feels real" (46-47).

When he mentions "that good night" (Dylan Thomas 1), he is referring to death.

Frost presents the idea that the buzz-saw 'leaped out at the boy's hand," as if it were alive (2).

Roger shows his true evil when, "with a sense of delirious abandonment, [he] leaned all his weight on the lever" (180).

According to one source, the Major's resignation "was not inevitable, but rather predictable. (Kent 5)"