I think that is personification as you are giving a non living thing a living trait, if I'm wrong correct me.
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Temporal Transitions are used to show the frequency, duration, specific time, or beginning or end of something. They bring your reader through the story from beginning to end.
Relationship: With regards to, Coupled with, in the same way
Sequence/Shift in time or setting: First, Earlier, meanwhile
Suspense Building: Suddenly, Little by little, out of the blue
Anne henderson shows will power when the white girls try to make fun of her, and how one girl is so disrespectful that she does a handstand in a dress without any underwear on in front of ms. Henderson. Ms hendersons daughter is confused with this because her mom is letting them do it but she was taught not be disrespectful. At the end she realozes that her mother was demonstrating how someone who can stand all the burdens and obstacles given to you with willpower