The Cases That Haunt Us Post 4

5 comments
- Jon Benet Ramsey entered pageants most of her life
-She was five years old when she was killed
-she was found in the basement of her house
-her parents were suspected of killing her
-she is the youngest victim in the book of haunting cases

4 questions
-why was she killed?
-were they French?
-how big was the house?
-was she tortured?

3 vocab words
-strangulation- to compress or constrict (a duct, intestine, vessel, etc.) so as to prevent circulation or suppress function.
-euphemism-the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt.

2 Literary terms
-"Jon-Benet Ramsey was as cute as a button"---simile
-they were well ofs so they could afford the best lawyers in the world"---hyperbole

1 Overview
A poor, sweet, and innocent child was brutally murdered in the basement of her own house.