What is the purpose of the heading in this passage? to identify the locations of events to describe the author’s ancestry to explain the start of sugar production to distinguish who is telling the story

Which poetic techniques are illustrated in the opening lines “i am fourteen/and my skin has betrayed me/the boy i cannot live without/still sucks his thumb/in secret”? alliteration and metaphor allusion and alliteration apostrophe and simile personification and enjambment