Read the excerpt from A Girl from Yamhill. Mother seizes my hand and begins to run, out of the house, down the steps, across the muddy barnyard toward the barn where my father is working. My short legs cannot keep up. I trip, stumble, and fall, tearing holes in the knees of my long brown cotton stockings, skinning my knees.

Which effective narrative technique does the author use in this excerpt?

powerful introductory sentence
interesting dialogue to move the story along
clear first-person point of view
strong description of the author’s emotions