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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?

irony
symbolism
sensory detail
foreshadowing

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yea its irony so you were right

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Irony? because the narrator already feels destroyed. just my thought though.... 
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