Vocabulary
Struggle between opposing forces
Conflict
The character is not a suspect.
Mary Maloney
Where most of the story takes place
Maloney's house.
The type of story...(genre)
Short story, murder-mystery, drama
Irony: a situation that shows the ___________________ of what one would expect.
Opposite
A character that changes in some important way.
Dynamic character
Mary's husband's profession.
police officer.
Where Mary gets the murder weapon
freezer.
Patrick's first suspicious action
Finishing his drink in one gulp
What is ironic about Patrick's job and what happens to him?
he is a police officer. His job is to stop murderers, yet he is murdered himself by his own wife.
Cold, mean, and hard-hearted best describes ________________
Patrick Maloney
When Mrs. Maloney returns home from the grocery and sees Patrick's dead body on the floor, how does she react?
As if its the first time she's seen it
The plot twist of Lamb to the Slaughter...
The detectives eating the murder weapon.
When your audience has more information than your character(s) in a story.
Dramatic irony
An idea or message that is repeated throughout the story
Theme
On a plot pyramid, this is where characters are first introduced.
Exposition
What does Mary buy at the grocery store? (3 things)
potatoes, a can of peas, and cheesecake.
Mary gets away with murder because of this.
The detectives don't suspect her at all (because they're friends) and eat the murder weapon.
The irony of the story's ending.
that the detectives are talking about finding the murder weapon as they eat it. (and that the murderer is in the very next room).
It is a comparison made between two different things using the words “like” or “as”.
Simile
Mary's immediate reaction after Patrick tells her he's leaving.
shock or denial
Mary's real reason for going to the grocery store.
To have an alibi
"And in the other room, Mary Maloney began to ______" Complete the last sentence of the story.
Giggle
When the outcome of a situation is totally different from what people expect.
situational irony