The use of expressive means and stylistic devices

In order to describe the setting, reveal the idea and render the general atmosphere of the passage vividly and convincingly the author of the analysed passage resorts to some expressive means and stylistic devices.One should say that Charlotte Perkins Gilman brilliantly uses lexical means to describe in a precise way the events of “The Yellow Wallpaper” and to create vivid images.It must be noted that almost every paragraph of “The Yellow Wallpaper” sounds ironically. We can here find situational, dramatic and verbal irony. In the story we cam find: epithets, metaphors, repetitions, personifications, similes, parallel constructions, polysyndeton, anaphora, asyndeton, gradation, exclamatory sentences, rhetorical sentences, parenthesis, antithesis, parallelisms,   alliteration, assonances, and emphatic constructions.