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Irony, symbolism, and allusions have all been skillfully used by Roald Dahl to write Lamb to the Slaughter
-Anonymous
Dramatic irony is when the reader knows something important that the characters don’t know.
In the story irony is employed when Mary Maloney uses the leg of lamb to kill her husband. The irony of this is that the lamb (Mary Maloney) used lamb to kill her husband. Also that instead if the shepherd leading the lamb to death- the lamb lead the shepherd to his death
In the story the author uses symbolism to further explain the story. The baby(fetus) that Mary Maloney is carrying represent the innocence that Mary Maloney has. That embellishes her persona of being the innocent house wife .Which pegs her more as the lamb rather than the shepherd.
Allusion is when something in the story is actually referencing something else
An allusion used in the story is the reference used to a biblical story regarding the lamb and the shepherd. Basically, the Shepherd leads the the unknowing innocent lamb to its death. This translate into the story because the wife symbolizes the innocent lamb and the husband the “killer”.
Symbolism is when a figure/entity in a story has deeper meaning
=idea
=death