Across
- 2. the seemingly gentle protagonist who commits the murder
- 3. the type of humor created by the story’s irony
- 6. the frozen object used as the murder weapon
- 8. the ordinary home setting of the crime
- 9. Mary’s method of avoiding arrest
- 11. what the police are searching for but never find
- 15. where the murder weapon is stored before the crime
- 16. the specific part of the lamb used as a weapon
- 17. the unexpected ending of the story
- 18. Mary’s husband and the victim in the story
Down
- 1. type of irony shown when the police eat the weapon
- 2. Crime that Mary actually committed
- 4. the group that investigates Patrick’s death
- 5. assumptions about women that protect Mary
- 7. Mary’s excuse involving a trip to the grocery store
- 8. the men who unknowingly destroy the evidence
- 10. a literary device where expectation contrasts with reality
- 12. type of irony when words mean the opposite of what is intended
- 13. type of irony where the reader knows more than the characters
- 14. Mary’s condition that increases situational irony