LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER In class we read‚ "Lamb to the slaughter"‚ written by Roal Dahl. The story takes place one evening in the home of the Maloneys‚ who seem to be an ordinary married couple. Mary Maloney was waiting for her husband Patrick‚ a policeman‚ to come home. Mary is pregnant and happy and looking forward to his return. However‚ Patrick has a nasty surprise for her. He says that he is going to leave her. Mary enters a state of shock and acts as if nothing has happened. From the deep freeze
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to memorize battles‚ honor those who fight or just to glorify war itself. What tools can writers use to protest war? Writers use three techniques to achieve the protest of war. They use Imagery‚ Irony‚ and Structure. A way writers use to protest war is by using Imagery. Crane used very strong glorifying imagery. He put negative images next to the glorified images and that was his way of protesting war. “Hoarse‚ booming drums of the regiment” is an example of glorified images. “A field where a thousand
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Task 1: Term 1: Visual Imagery: Is the use of vivid or figurative language to represent images‚ objects‚ actions or ideas. In the poem Driving to Town Late Late to Mail a Letter by Robert Bly‚ the author uses Visual Imagery to describe the view of the day. When Bly uses “It is a cold and snowy night. The main street is deserted” (1)‚ we can picture it as if we were with the speaker driving around on a lonely and cold day. Visual Imagery is important to this piece of literature because it allows us
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The story "The Necklace" has more situational irony in my opinion then the story "Lamb to the Slaughter" which has less situational irony. Both of the stories have situational irony‚ but "The Necklace" tells more of a good story then "Lamb to the Slaughter." They all both good stories. The stories "Lamb to the Slaughter" and "The Necklace" both had good meanings. "The Necklace" tells a better story because the story explained how the main character which was Mathilde and she was very spoiled
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students should keep discussing and learning about Ishmael Beah’s memoir‚ A Long Way Gone for the Sterling High School English IV curriculum. The author displays vivid imagery to aid students in visualizing what happens beyond the text and the impact it has on the students that read the memoir. Beah’s memoir reveals intense imagery for students to gain full knowledge on Beah’s history. For instance‚ Beah struggles to face decisions he has to make while surviving in the villages of Sierra Leone: “Along
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device is imagery which is word pictures used by a writer to illustrate‚ illuminate‚ or embellish their thought. Throughout Macbeth William Shakespeare uses the imagery of blood to illustrate how the want for power can make people do things that they would normally never think about doing. Blood usually represents death and killing especially throughout Macbeth. In the play there are many places where blood is used to create vivid scenes in the audience’s head. One example of this imagery is when
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Imagery in Phillis Wheatley’s Poems Phillis Wheatley was a black slave born in Africa and brought to America‚ in particular Boston in 1761. Wheatley was purchased by John Wheatley‚ a wealthy tailor as a gift for his wife‚ Susannah. Wheatley was quite fortunate in her surroundings due to the sympathy Susannah had towards her. Susannah saw Wheatley as a frail and intelligent child. Wheatley lived from 1753-1784 and in this time period most white women did not even receive an education. Fortunately
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bitter political and literary difference between Dryden and Shadwell. Dryden however makes literature alone as the basic subject of his poem and does not indulge in any sort of political stunt. The subject of literature is bound up with pervasive imagery of coronation. Flecknoe‚ whose name had become a synonym for all bad versifiers in Dryden’s time‚ is the king of the realm of nonsense. He is tired out with business and decides to settle the succession of the state. Flecknoe is looking for a successor
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glossary of literary terms from Ohio University written by M.H. Abrams‚ the term ‘imagery’ is claimed as ‘mental pictures’. Cecil Day-Lewis agrees with this statement in his book‚ Poetic Image‚ that an image‚ “is a picture made out of words” (Lewis 17-18). In William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth‚ there are many demonstrations of imagery used that gives readers a mental picture of what is going on in the play. Imagery gives literature life and emotion; it makes the reader feel as if he/she is actually
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In the short story “Lamb to the Slaughter”‚ by Roald Dahl‚ Mary Maloney learned that her husband wanted a divorce. Mary was determined to keep her marriage and refused to let her husband Patrick leave. Mary’s reaction was disturbing because her fear of losing her husband drove her to kill him. Patrick came home from work‚ had a drink and then told Mary that he wanted a divorce. Mary‚ being pregnant with their first child‚ was shocked by Patrick’s announcement. Patrick told Mary that she and
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