What time of figurative speech is the underlined part?
and see the tears welling up in her little eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see the depressing (clouds of inferiority begin to form in her little mental sky…)
personification because inferiority means being lower in status or qualiy than others and, of course, a cloud can feel inferiority but the author gave that human like characteristic to a cloud.