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"…and wandered far down the steep slopes amid the wild tangle of undergrowth, peering through the tree trunks and listening through the whistling and skirling of the wind and the restless beating of the branches for sight and sound of the marauders."
The language creates an uncertainty about what's going to happen and immerses the reader in the present moment, so that he/she feels as if she were in the story, watching for marauders as well. </span>
"<span>Only this and nothing more. And so faintly you came tapping, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor."</span>
The correct answer for the question that is being presented above is this one: "editing and proofreading." The stage in which you polish your writing and fix errors is the stage of editing and proofreading. At this stage, everything has to be serious and be done diligently because whatever the output of this stage will tell you the final output.