Irony:)

Task #1:
Dramatic Irony: A situation where a character is unaware of something that the audience knows. This situation turns out to be ironic for the audience.
Situational Irony: An outcome is very different from what was expected to happen and what actually does.
Verbal Irony: A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant.
Ambiguity: A certain sense of doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention.

Task #3:
a)Dahl uses dramatic irony by letting the reader know what happened to Patrick but not the police officer. In the story dramatic irony is more powerful because we know what is happening while some of the characters do not.
b)The irony in the passage is situational irony.
c)The title of the story is ironic because, the title is a pun. A lamb to the slaughter usually refers to someone who is unaware they are about to be harmed, since lambs are easily led to their slaughter since they trust the one leading them and they are unaware of what is to become of them.

In this story, the husband, Patrick Maloney, is killed like a lamb, totally trusts his wife Mary and is completely unaware of his impending doom, but the title is also ironic because it is actually a frozen leg of lamb that is used to slaughter the hapless victim.