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Read this excerpt from "Hope, Despair, and Memory" by Elie Wiesel and answer the question.

The survivors wanted to communicate everything to the living: the victim’s solitude and sorrow, the tears of mothers driven to madness, the prayers of the doomed beneath a fiery sky. They needed to tell of the child who, in hiding with his mother, asked softly, very softly, "Can I cry now?" They needed to tell of the sick beggar who, in a sealed cattle-car, began to sing as an offering to his companions. And of the little girl who, hugging her grandmother, whispered: "Don’t be afraid, don’t be sorry to die … I’m not."

In the above excerpt Wiesel is using what main literary device?

parable
simile and metaphor
sensory details
foreshadowing
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Answer:

I think it's D.

Explanation: Foreshadowing means to be a warning or indication of a future event. In the excerpt it says "Don’t be afraid, don’t be sorry to die … I’m not." This indicates that "grandmother" knew that her end was near.

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