10_LIT_After reading "Lamb to the Slaughter"

Last updated over 2 years ago

6 questions

Instructions

5

Required

8

Required

5

Required

6

Required

16

Library

10_LIT_After reading "Lamb to the Slaughter"

Last updated over 2 years ago

6 questions

Instructions

Answer the questions.

5

Required

8

Required

5

Required

6

Draggable item		Corresponding Item

Required

16

Answer the questions.

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

Cold and distant

Warm and loving

Aggressive and violent

Shy and retiring

Mary's character remains static (unchanged) throughout the story. True or False?

True

False

Which actions by Mary demonstrate a change in her character? Select any that apply.

She cooks dinner for her husband

She kills her husband

She goes to the grocery store

She acts innocently when the police arrive

Which piece of dialogue is crucial to revealing Mary's transformation?

'Hello, Sam,' she said.

'I've killed him,' she murmured.

'Would you like some whiskey, Sam?'

'No, thank you,' she said.

Match each type of irony to its definition.

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

Categorize each of the examples of irony to its type.

"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.

Verbal Irony
Situational Irony
Dramatic Irony

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

Cold and distant

Warm and loving

Aggressive and violent

Shy and retiring

Mary's character remains static (unchanged) throughout the story. True or False?

True

False

Which actions by Mary demonstrate a change in her character? Select any that apply.

She cooks dinner for her husband

She kills her husband

She goes to the grocery store

She acts innocently when the police arrive

Which piece of dialogue is crucial to revealing Mary's transformation?

'Hello, Sam,' she said.

'I've killed him,' she murmured.

'Would you like some whiskey, Sam?'

'No, thank you,' she said.

Match each type of irony to its definition.

Dramatic Irony

The speaker says one thing, but they really mean another.

Verbal Irony

When something happens that is very different to what was expected.

Situational Irony

When the reader has more information than the characters have.

Categorize each of the examples of irony to its type.

"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.

Verbal Irony

Situational Irony

Dramatic Irony