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The literary device used in the above excerpt best establishes immediacy and sense of place commentary and existentialism.
<em>This passage heightens the sense of immediacy and reinforces the idea that something happening at the present moment. This is demonstrated in the question ¨Can I cry, now?¨</em>
<em>The sense of place was established at the very beginning and it is directly connected to immediacy as well as commentary.</em>
<em>Finally existentialism, the author composed a piece of literature that contains, to varying degrees, elements of existential or proto-existential thought.</em>
"Troubled Times" 4 is the best for citation there from those choices, one thing you never do while citing is do "Troubled Times" p.4. Why? because it doesn't look half as good as "Troubled Times 4", there is my answer.
