Read the excerpt from The Time Machine by H.G. Wells. Then, answer the question that follows.
"Then I stopped the machine, and saw about me again the old familiar laboratory, my tools, my appliances just as I had left them. I got off the thing very shakily and sat down upon
my bench. For several minutes I trembled violently.
Then I became calmer. Around me was my old workshop again, exactly as it had been. I might have slept there, and the
whole thing have been a dream.
"And yet, not exactly! The thing had started from the south-east corner of the laboratory. It had come to rest again in the north-west, against the wall where you saw it. That gives you
the exact distance from my little lawn to the
pedestal of the White Sphinx, into which the Morlocks had carried my machine.
"For a time my brain went stagnant. Presently I got up and came through the passage here, limping, because my heel was still painful, and feeling sorely begrimed. I saw the Pall
Mall Gazette on the table by the
door. I found the date was indeed today, and looking at the timepiece, saw the hour was almost eight o'clock. I heard your voices and the clatter
of
plates. I hesitated I felt so sick and weak
. Then I sniffed good wholesome meat, and opened the
door on you. You know the rest. I washed, and dined, and now I am telling you
the
story."
Which narrative technique is used in the bolded sentences?
O Figurative language
O Foreshadowing
O Flashback
O Pacing