1. 將文字換成場景想像的能力：
He staggered from his bed and, pulling the curtains back from the window, he saw, instead of his own inflection in the moonlight, the face of Edward Hyde glaring back at him from the glass, smiling at him. (他蹣跚地從床上爬起，
把窗戶上的窗簾拉開。他看到，不是自己在月光下的倒影，而是海德的臉，從玻璃窗上看著他，對他微笑。)(引自《化身博士》)
2. 掌握故事敘述的能力：
I told you about the time machine last week and just this morning I began my journey. I entered my laboratory and seated myself upon the time machine. I took the starting lever in one hand and the stopping lever in the other, and pressed the first.
I felt a sensation of falling, and glanced across the room at the clock. A moment before, it had said a minute past ten. Now it was nearly half past three. (引自《時光機器》)
3. 思考批判人文與科學的能力：
No one would have believed at the end of the nineteenth century that planet earth was being watched by beings more intelligent than humankind, who regarded our planet with envy and were drawing up plans against us.(沒人會相信，在十九世紀末，地球已經被高階智慧的生物所觀察，他們以嫉妒的心情看著地球，正計畫對付地球。)(引自《世界大戰》)
