Personification and Imagery of Nature: "The night air rushed cool and sweet over their faces and the distant sighing of the waves became a surging tide of sound..." (pg 275)
"We are here together, ten of us on this small and lonely island. And one of us is a murderer." (pg 282)
Forshadowing: "Why then should she have to struggle against a sudden and overwhelming conviction that her tastk was doomed to disaster?" (pg 81)