In the stories “The Landlady” and “Lamb to the Slaughter” the author, Roald Dahl, was successful in creating scary moments in his writing by use of things like repetition and cliffhangers.
First in the two stories repetition is used a lot to help emphasize some of the scary elements of the story.
In “Lamb to the Slaughter” repetition is used when the author is talking about the wife trying to go on about her daily life after she had just murdered her husband. In “The Landlady” the author uses repetition to show how odd the lady was such as when the lady was immediately at the door when he rang or the fact she had a bed and everything ready for someone to be there that night. An example of repetition from “The Landlady” is “he hadn’t even had
First in the two stories repetition is used a lot to help emphasize some of the scary elements of the story.
In “Lamb to the Slaughter” repetition is used when the author is talking about the wife trying to go on about her daily life after she had just murdered her husband. In “The Landlady” the author uses repetition to show how odd the lady was such as when the lady was immediately at the door when he rang or the fact she had a bed and everything ready for someone to be there that night. An example of repetition from “The Landlady” is “he hadn’t even had