I think that the purpose of Daly's "Sixteen" is TO SERVE AS A LESSON TO OTHER GIRLS.
At 16, you think you know everything there is to know just like the character in the story. She always say's "I know...." and because of what she knew, she had expectations. She expected that the boy she met in the skating rink will call her after spending time with her, walking her home, and telling her that he'd call. She was emotionally invested but she got disappointed. The boy did not call and in the end of the story, she knew that he will never, ever, call.
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wouldn't it be spring. The only time I know with soft rains is during the season of spring. So I would say spring.
If you use different senses the body has, like smell, feeling, touching, tasting, all these things help to create a mental image because if you have already experienced what you are mentally trying to imagine, using those senses help you to make that mental image appear.
Example - Say you went to an amusement park when you were little and you are trying to remember the different types of food that you ate there. You could walk past a vendor or bakery and some of the smells coming from there might help you to remember the different foods they had at the amusement park. You would be using your sense of smell to help you create that mental image of the foods you once had.
William Bradford he told everyone of his experience's he talked about them in his sermons