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."

Which lines in this excerpt from act ii of william shakespeare’s romeo and juliet reveal that mercutio thinks romeo would be better off if he stopped thinking about love? mercutio: i will bite thee by the ear for that jest. romeo: nay, good goose, bite not. mercutio: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting it is a most sharp sauce. romeo: and is it not well served in to a sweet goose? mercutio: o here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad! romeo: i stretch it out for that word 'broad; ' which added to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose. mercutio: why, is not this better now than groaning for love? now art thou sociable, now art thou romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature: for this drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. benvolio: stop there, stop there. mercutio: thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair. benvolio: thou wouldst else have made thy tale large. mercutio: o, thou art deceived; i would have made it short: for i was come to the whole depth of my tale; and meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.