In the last paragraph of “All the Years of Her Life," the author includes brief flashbacks from Alfred's and his mother's lives.
Describe these flashbacks and
explain their effect.

This type of flashback is an internal analepsis.

Explanation:

This is a flashback to an earlier point in the narrative.They are used to help readers better understand present-day elements in the story or learn more about a character or reveal some important truth about a character's past that otherwise the reader might not have known.

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