The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Author's Method

Which of the following is NOT considered author's method?

• PLOT

• DIALOGUE

• ANECDOTE

• INNER THOUGHTS

Which author's method is described in the following?

I pulled myself onto the tower's first rung and began to climb. The soft wood groaned under my weight as I reached the top, where I stood level with my creation. Its steel bones were welded and bent, and its plastic arms were blackened from fire.

• Dialogue

• Allusion

• Anecdote

• Description

Which author's method is the actual words spoken by an individual to another individual; written with quotation marks?

• Allusion

• Theme

• Anecdote

• Dialogue

a short and interesting, sometimes funny, story

• Inner thoughts

• Description

• Anecdote

• Allusion

specific and vivid details told often with imagery; could be physical description of an individual or general description of an idea or concept

• Inner thoughts

• Description

• Allusion

• Dialogue

reference to a different text, person, or event

• anecdote

• allusion

• dialogue

• examples

"My knees turned to jelly, but I held on. I pleaded in silence: Don't let me down." This quote is an example of

• main idea

• inner thoughts

• dialogue

• allusion

Which is a simile?

• "The boy has done it. He has made electric wind!"

• The muscles in my back and arms had grown as hard as green fruit...

• Its steel bones were welded and bent. Its plastic arms were blackened from fire.

• These same men had teased me...Let them, I thought. It was time.

When people hear I'm the only boy among six girls, they often say, "Eh bambo"-which is like saying, "Hey man"-"So sorry for you!"

What can we infer from the quote above?

• The family must be considered lucky to have so many girls.

• William is happy to be the only boy.

• Boys are valued in Malawian culture.

• It is easy to be the only boy in the family because you get spoiled.

Identify two of the author's methods in this excerpt: "Oh, I know what's wrong," the wizard says. "You have a snail."

"A snail?"

"I'm almost positive. We must remove it at once."

The wizard goes into his bag of roots, powders, and bones and pulls out a lightbulb.

"Lift up your shirt," he says.

Without plugging the bulb into anything, he moves it slowly across the person's stomach, as if to illuminate something only he can detect.

"There it is. Can you see the snail moving?"

• Inner thoughts

• Description

• Anecdote

• Dialogue