In the story,”Lamb to the Slaughter”, there are many verbal ironies. An example of a verbal irony was when Mary Mahoney thanks the cops for putting their time and effort in an attempt “to catch the man who killed Patrick”. This is a verbal irony because Mary is actually the culprit who killed Patrick. Other than verbal irony, the story also contain dramatic and situational irony. In the story, Mary asked the officers to eat the leg of lamb as a sign of hospitality. The officers complied and ate the leg of lamb while talking about how they were going to find the murder weapon. This is an example of dramatic irony because the policemen do not know the lamb they are eating is the murder weapon Mary used to kill her husband. A situational irony