What literary technique does the author employ in the last sentence of the passage?

Question

Read the passage below from “Marigolds” and answer the question.

I had indeed lost my mind, for all the smoldering emotions of that summer swelled in me and burst—the great need for my mother who was never there, the hopelessness of our poverty and degradation, the bewilderment of being neither child nor woman and yet both at once, the fear unleashed by my father’s tears. And these feelings combined in one great impulse toward destruction.

What literary technique does the author employ in the last sentence of the passage?

Answer 1

The author/main character uses foreshadowing/alluding, to tell the audience something without coming right out and saying it, this keeps the audience's attention . The audience (u and me both) wants to find out what kind of destruction this is!" 

Answer 2

Is there a feeling that rises up in you when you read the last sentence? If you feel something, what is that feeling? The nature of that feeling will give you a clue to the literary device. I would say that the feeling that should rise up is a sense of fear or foreboding for what might happen next in the story. Can you guess now yourself what the technique is? Answer: Thus, the technique being used is foreshadowing!