10_LIT_After reading "Lamb to the Slaughter" - Beth Levy | Library

Instructions

Answer the questions.

5

At the beginning of the story, how would you describe Mary's character?

5

Required

8

Required

5

Required

6

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
Situational Irony		The speaker says one thing, but they really mean another.
Dramatic Irony		When something happens that is very different to what was expected.
Verbal Irony		When the reader has more information than the characters have.

Required

16

"It'd be a favor to me if you'd eat it up. Then you can go on with your work again afterwards."
"Probably right under our very noses. What you think, Jack?"
“At that point, Mary Maloney simply walked up behind him and without any pause she swung the big frozen leg of lamb high in the air and brought it down as hard as she could on the back of his head.”
“Get the weapon, and you’ve got the man.”
“Good friends of Patrick’s…helping to catch the man who killed him.”
The wife of a police officer murders her husband.
The title of the story, “Lamb to the Slaughter”
Mary talks to the grocer about cooking dinner for Patrick.