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Vocabulary
Character
Setting
Plot
Irony
100
arriving on time; prompt
What is punctually.
100
The main character...
Who is Mary Maloney
100
Where most of the story takes place
What is in the Maloney's house.
100

The type of story...(genre)

What is a mystery story (short story)

100
Irony: a situation that shows the ___________________ of what one would expect.
What is... opposite.
200
"Now and again she glanced at the clock, but without ______________ because she knew Patrick would be home soon."
What is anxiety
200
Mary's husband's profession.
What is a police officer.
200
Where Mary gets the leg of lamb.
What is the freezer.
200
An unexpected event that usually creates conflict and makes the story more interesting.
What is a plot twist
200
What is ironic about Patrick's job and what happens to him?
What is ...he is a police officer. His job is stop murderers yet he is murdered himself by his own wife.
300
Tiger Woods is an ______________________ talented golfer.
What is exceptionally.
300
Cold, mean, and hard-hearted best describes ________________ at the beginning of the story.
Who is Patrick Maloney
300
The decade the story most likely takes place.
What is the 1950's
300
The plot twist of Lamb to the Slaughter...
What is... the detectives eating the murder weapon.
300
Describe the irony of the interaction between Mary and Patrick at the very beginning of the story.
What is ...Mary is loving, caring, and kind to Patrick when he comes home, and he is silent, cold, and mean because he is leaving her.
400
Lamb to the Slaughter is a _________________ story -- but it's that strangeness that makes it so great!
What is peculiar
400
A literary device author's use to reveal details about characters (what makes them tick)...
What is characterization
400

 Mary does this when she returns home from the grocer's?

What is ... cries hysterically.

400

The climax of the story...

What is... when Mary kills her husband

400
The irony of the story's ending.
What is ...that the detectives are talking about finding the murder weapon as they eat it. (and that the murderer is in the very next room).
500
Roald Dahl's gift for writing was _____________________. He just seem to have a natural ___________________ for storytelling.
What are... extraordinary AND instinct
500
Mary's immediate reaction after Patrick tells her he's leaving.
What is... she pretends that nothing has happened (denial). "Perhaps if she acted as though she had not heard him, she would find that none of it really happened."
500

The "lamb" in the story

What is Patrick AND Mary Maloney

500
The inciting incident of the story (kicks off the action/conflict)
What is ...Patrick tells Mary he is leaving.
500

Examples of dramatic irony  

What is ...we know Mary killed her husband, the police don't

we know Sam has provided Mary with an alibi, Sam doesn't

we know the police eat the murder weapon, but they don't