A narrator describes a worker's fourteen-hour shifts as "not the worst," and the reader immediately wonders...

A narrator describes a worker's fourteen-hour shifts as "not the worst," and the reader immediately wonders what could be worse — revealing conditions the character has come to accept as normal.
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determinism
juxtaposition
dramatic irony
accumulated detail
understatement
An author spends three paragraphs cataloging a tenement's broken pipes, crumbling plaster, blocked windows, and rotting floors without ever stating that the building is dangerous — yet the reader arrives at that conclusion on their own.
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A character has no choice but to take a dangerous job because every other option — starvation, homelessness, debt — leads to the same desperate outcome, regardless of how hard she works or how carefully she chooses.
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An author places a description of a factory owner's banquet immediately before a scene in which his workers pool coins to afford a single meal, without commenting on the relationship between the two.
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A narrator notes that the mill children are "somewhat small for their age" and moves on — trusting the reader to recognize what chronic malnutrition actually means without being told.