Assess and Reflect As you did with the paragraph you revised earlier in this activity, use what you have learned
about effective sentences and paragraphs and make revisions so that this simple, unelaborated
paragraph becomes an effective, analytical paragraph.

In "Lamb to the Slaughter." Dahl conveys dramatic irony through Mary's dialogue with
the detectives. Dramatic irony is when the reader knows something that at least one of the
characters does not. Mary offers the detectives dinner. "Ita be a favour to me if you'd eat it
up." Mary knows the lamb is the murder weapon. Dahl's readers know the lamb is the murder
weapon. Detective Noonan doesn't know the lamb is the murder weapon. The detectives eat the
lamb. "Personally, I think it's right here under our noses."