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Answer:
Roald Dahl used dramatic irony to create a suspenseful yet intriguing scene for the readers. It captures our attention and did it so well as to entice us to know what the ending will bring.
This dramatic irony makes the readers so engrossed in anticipation, eagerly awaiting the moment the crime may be solved.
Explanation:
In his story "Lamb to the Slaughter", Roald Dahl used dramatic irony to reveal the true events and to maintain the suspense. The dramatic irony is seen when the audience knows the happenings in the story but the characters have no idea about it.
Likewise, the police officers who came to investigate the death of their fellow detective Patrick Maloney who had been killed in his own home. As readers, we know that he was killed by his wife Mary with a <em>"leg of lamb"</em> that she was planning to make for dinner. Then, when the officers accepted to have dinner with their dead colleague's wife, they had the very same murder weapon for dinner, the <em>"piece of evidence" </em>that they need to prove the murder. The best scene is when they admitted the weapon may be <em>"right under our very noses"</em>, which it literally is, on their plates.
This dramatic irony provides huge suspense and also some hilarious results/ effects for the readers. It allows us to feel or see the side of the story that before the characters do, but more importantly it builds the suspense for how the story will end.
Answer:
A semicolon can be used to combine two closely related independent clauses if they are not already joined by a coordinating conjunction (and, but, or, nor, for, so, or yet).
<span>Laura
is Petrarch's beloved, Dido is Queen of Carthage said she was drab,
Cleopatra is a deceitful woman, and Helen and Hero are the beloved
respectively of Paris and Leander. He said they were good-for-nothing
famous women and not so great.</span>
Answer:
You won't want to hear this, nor will you believe me..... but NONE of the four options are correct.
Explanation:
* option A -- The end quotation marks are missing after 'itself.'
* option B -- The period after 'best' should be replaced with a colon.
* option C -- The semi-colon is the wrong punctuation.
* option D -- The punctuation is missing after 'best' AND the quotation marks are missing from the quotation.
