I wish I could close my eyes, click my heels together three times, and awaken on a tropical island.

"What you want?"

"I can still tend the rabbits, George?"

"Sure. You ain't done nothing wrong."

She remembered that moment like it happened yesterday, a lifetime ago when she didn't have a care in the world.

A hint about something that will happen later in a story.

"But soft! What light through yonder breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!" --from Romeo and Juliet

The bees buzzed throughout the garden in the afternoon sunshine.

The emotional core or pulse of a story.

"His huge companion dropped his blankets and flung himself down and drank from the surface of the green pool; drank with long gulps, snorting into the water like a horse." --from Of Mice and Men

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The wind whispered secrets through the trees, a mournful song carried on the breeze. (check all that apply)

Communicates an event's place in time... may be past, present, or future.

A "freeze frame" moment of visual imagery in narrative writing.

“My heart pounds so hard that, despite the roaring of the crowd, I am aware of blood whooshing through my ears. I am filled to overflowing, bursting with love.” --from Water for Elephants

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A feeling of anticipation that something risky or dangerous is about to happen in a story.

Purposeful use of the same word or phrase multiple times in a piece of writing.

Specific language used to convey meaning, tone, or actions related to the author's purpose.

A reference to a famous event/person/thing in a different work of literature

The use of intentional exaggeration for emphasis or effect.

A person, situation, object, or word is used to represent something more abstract.

Contradiction between expectation and reality... may be dramatic, situational, or verbal.