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Author's devices-the hook.

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    Identify different types of hooks from children's books.
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  • Which type of hook does this story use?"Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches stood at the top of a high mountain surrounded by a pine forest.It looked more like a prison than a school..."
    The Painter
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  • Which type of hook does this story use?"Once there were four children whose names were Peter,Susan,Edmund and Lucy."
    The Salesperson
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  • "Molly!" Maria shouted to her sister. "Would you please shut that window..."
    The Interrupter
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  • Ever had the feeling your life's been flushed down the toilet?
    The Salesperson
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  • A long time ago, when there were dragons and wicked witches and knights in armour and fairy tales were true, there lived a beautiful princess called Princess Amanda."
    The Weatherman
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  • "Jesse was always finding bones in the great bog-oak field where they dug the peat for the winter fires."
    The Puzzler
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  • "Mr Fox crept up the dark tunnel to the mouth of his hole. He poked his long handsome face out into the night and sniffed once."
    The Painter
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  • "I stopped yelling and started happily slurping my way through an ice cream."
    The Weatherman
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  • "There was once a gaggle of mountains, tall and proud, each with a hat of snow."
    The Painter
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  • "Mr Stink stank. He also stunk."
    The Comedian
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  • "He was especially tired of having to live in the same house as that grizzly old grunion of a Grandma. Looking after her all by himself was hardly the most exciting way to spend a Saturday morning."
    The Hinter
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  • "Laura's little brother George was four weeks old when it happened."
    The Puzzler
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  • "When I was four months old, my mother died suddenly and my father was left to look after me all by himself."
    The Salesperson
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  • "A thousand miles away, in a country east of the jungle and south of the mountains nations, there lived a Firework-maker called Lalchand and his daughter Lila..."
    The Puzzler/The Painter
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