Every time you describe that your character saw, heard, felt, smelled, or tasted something, see if you can’t drill into the more essential information of the sentence and cut out the unnecessary words....
No matter if you’re telling your story in first person or third, you are basically saying, “This is what my character experienced”
there's no need to repeat yourself.
http://kidlit.com/2012/02/08/eliminating-the-frame/
Given example:
She saw with her eyes that there was an elephant standing impossibly in the castle’s ballroom.
Or you could simply say:
An elephant stood, proud, tall, and incongruous, in the middle of the castle’s ballroom.
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