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Facts
Devices
Argumentation
100
This many women were killed by Marc Lepine on December 6, 1989.
What is fourteen?
100
"We know nothing of the evil path he slipped into smiling the cruel smile of the angel of destruction, no longer himself, knowing only he was put on earth to destroy" (170) is an example of what literary device?
What is metaphor?
100
The title "Cause and Effect" is an example of this kind of persuasive method.
What is logos?
200
The women Marc Lepine targeted were studying this subject when they were murdered.
What is engineering?
200
"His tragic destiny looks more and more like a tangle of shattered hopes, of frustrated dreams, of hopeless waits on a long and cold road without a single hand extended to help, and no guardrail" (172) is an example of what literary device(s)?
What is simile? What is imagery?
200
Petrowski's use of "it's" in the following quotation creates this effect at the beginning of her essay: "Pardon if I insist, pardon if I don't just mourn and forget, but it's stronger than I am" (170).
What is creating a sense of vagueness that encourages her reader to continue reading in order to discover the referent for "it"?
300
Marc Lepine lived in this province.
What is Quebec?
300
"Until last week Marc Lepine did not exist" (171) is an example of this literary device.
What is hyperbole?
300
This is the effect of Petrowski's switching from the first person singular perspective ("I") in the first three paragraphs of her essay to the first person plural perspective ("us" & "we") in the fourth and fifth paragraphs.
What is drawing the reader personally into the essay's argument (Pathos)?
400
Marc Lepine's suicide note blamed this group of people for ruining his life.
What are feminists?
400
"Though nothing can be done now for Marc Lepine, something can still be done for the others, whose inner clock has already begun the terrible countdown" (172) is an example of what literary device?
What is an extended metaphor?
400
Petrowski uses an abundance of rhetorical questions in her essay to emphasize one of the essay's major concerns.
What is the fact that there are many questions that remain unanswered and in need of attention?
500
Natalie Petrowski wrote her essay "Cause and Effect" approximately this long after the massacre.
What is one week?
500
This is the effect of the use of imagery in the following quotation: "His tragic destiny looks more and more like a tangle of shattered hopes, of frustrated dreams, of hopeless waits on a long and cold road without a single hand extended to help, and no guardrail" (172).
What is the building of a scene in which there is a sense of inevitability as though Marc Lepine was an accident waiting to happen?
500
Petrowski references a well-known Quebec slogan to create this tone in her essay.
What is irony?