Cultivate close reading skills, such as by applying literary terms, identifying rhetorical devices, and understanding genre conventions.
Read the following passage from Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper":
"Life is very much more exciting now than it used to be. You see I have something more to expect, to look forward to, to watch. I really do eat better, and am more quiet than I was. John is so pleased to see me improve! He laughed a little the other day, and said I seemed to be flourishing in spite of my wallpaper."
Which of the following literary devices—irony, metaphor, simile, or personification—is used in the passage?

A. Personification
B. Irony
C. Metaphor
D. Simile



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