Rolf’s camera is mentioned in both the first and last passage of the story. repeated mentions of the act of filming and the camera itself are evidence of the author’s use of which literary device:

motif
alliteration
hyperbole
simile

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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i believe it is d.) previous creature

yes, no, maybe, so i honestly don't know best of luck

assuming the underlined word is "regnant", the correct answer is b) ruling.