Which literary device does the underlined portion of the text most clearly show?
a. falling action
b. flashback
c. pacing
d. foreshadowing

B) Flashback

Explanation:

I have found the sentence that is missing in your question. Also, I think that the sentence is not written correctly but I cannot find from which story it comes from.

”If she close her eyes, she down from a nearby mountain and chasing her family.”

Flashback are often shown in literary work as interruptions where writers are showing action that happened in the past because in that way they are providing context to some events or narrative that will happen in the future.

2

explanation:

evertheless he ought to be slow to believe and to act, nor should he himself show fear, but proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity, so that too much confidence may not make him incautious and too much distrust render him intolerable.

explanation: