Write a literary precis on the story " lamb to the slaughter "

Many things

Explanation:

Mood. peaceful, middle-class domestic home at the beginning of the story creates a calm and tranquil mood, however suspense builds as we sense the husband's innate hostility to his wife.

setting

verbal irony

situational irony

dramatic irony

effect of irony

narrative perspective

protagonist.

as for symbolic actions, the narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the "woman" in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity.   the wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement.