Answer:
Patrick Maloney drinks heavily when he arrives home. He is not as communicative as he usually is. This behavior foreshadows that he has some news for his wife, which she will not be happy to hear.
Explanation:
Foreshadowing is a literary device in which the author gives the readers certain clues about what will happen later in the story.
In "Lamb to the Slaughter", Patrick Maloney returns home and everything seems as usual, until he starts to drink a lot of alcohol. He barely talks to his wife, giving short answers to what Mary says. This behavior indicates that Patrick has certain news to share with his wife, and that he expects that she will not be happy when she hears it. He wants to leave his pregnant wife, and is aware that there is a difficult conversation in front of them.
This is the rhyme scheme in this poem: ABBAABBACDCDCD.
What this means is that each letter which is repeated rhymes with each other. So A refers to lines 1, 4, 5, and 8, which all rhyme. B refers to lines 2, 3, 6, and 7, which all rhyme. C refers to lines 9, 11, and 13, which all rhyme. D refers to lines 10, 12, and 14, which all rhyme.
The answer is B) a clear knowledge of what the author tried to say.
I believe it is because he saw what he believed to be juliet dead so he ignored the letter and never delivered it. I may be wrong but that was what i understood from a class discussion on it
