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Repetition In Lamb To The Slaughter

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Lamb To The Slaughter Repetition helped make the story more scary. Here are 3 reasons why. In the story Lamb To The Slaughter, Mary Maloney repeats the word “darling” multiple times in the story. Mary says "Hello darling”. Then a couple lines later she says "Tired darling?". After that she says "Darling," while talking to her husband. "Would you like me to get you some cheese? I haven't made any supper because it's Thursday.". That is one example of how the author used repetition to make the story more scary. Also in Lamb To The Slaughter it talks about how Mary Maloney was making her husband a “strong” drink and about how she makes her a“weak” drink for herself. “Then she walked over and made the drinks, a strong one for him, a weak one

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