Match the items. The task is to match the lettered items with the correct numbered items. Appearing below is a list of lettered items. Following that is a list of numbered items. Each numbered item is followed by a drop-down. Select the letter in the drop down that best matches the numbered item with the lettered alternatives. a. "Billie's legs are noodles. The ends of her hair are poison needles. Her tongue is a bristly sponge, and her eyes are bags of bleach." Kelly Link, Secret Identity. b. "Love...began on a beach. It began that day when Jacob say Annette in her stewed-cherry dress." Tiphanic Yanique, Land of Love and Drowning. c. "The world was ghost quiet-except for the crack of the sails and the burbling water against hull." Tobias S. Buckell, Hurricane Fever. 1. Word choice-which is close attention to the use of vivid words to "cast a spell" through engaging the senses. (Match to quote that achieves this.) a 2. Unexpected connotations-author uses our senses to make complex associations. Words are used to create texture to the story by choosing words that evoke a particular quality. (Match to quote that achieves this.) a 3. Sets imagination alight by avoiding cliches because author creates a dynamic world of the senses that engages the reader's imagination. (Match to quote that achieves this.)