What effects create the expressive means and stylistic devices used in the story??????????

 First of all, it's interesting to mention, that the whole story is really difficult to analyze, because the author has his own individual style, which makes the story unique. “The Yellow Wallpaper” is enormously rich with stylistic elements. This is obvious in the layout, the text form and the text type. Gilman’s text is a short story, written in prose, consisting of 83 lines which are divided into 39 paragraphs and is structured like a journal, written in an informal, impressionistic style.We are dealing with a 1st person narrator, the given point of view is limited and unreliable. 

The story also contains several symbols. The yellow wallpaper itself symbolizes the psychological state of the narrator. The nursery is also a symbol of society's treatment of women as juveniles. The barred windows symbolize entrapment, or the prison of the room or mind.  

In order to emphasize the atmosphere of the story and described the setting the author used EPITHETS: “physician of high standing”, “a delicious garden”, “sprawling flamboyant patterns”, “The colour…repellent, revolt…”, “a smouldering unclean yellow”, “atrocious nursery”, “blessed little goose”, “riotous old-fashioned flowers”, “velvet meadows”, “optic horror”  SIMILES: “lie awake as a child”, “chair that always seemed like a strong friend”, “it as good as gymnastics” 

To show that the main character suffers from illnesses the author used OXYMORON: “positively angry”. 

In order to show the complete insensitivity of her physician husband; he has marginalized her suffering by claiming that she is not sick at all, the author used POLYSYNDETON: So I take phosphates or phosphites—whichever it is, andtonics, and journeys, and air, and exercise, and am absolutely forbidden to "work" until I am well again.

To show a strong emotional effect, the author used ANAPHORA: "Personally, I disagree with their ideas. Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good." "I don't know why I should write this. I don't want to. I don'tfeel able."

PARENTHESIS used to show the main character mental suffering and emotional anguish.we almost hear her desperation at being labeled 'hysterical.' She is also suspicious of the house and how her stay there will affect her.: "If a physician of high standing, and one's own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency—what is one to do? I am afraid, but I don't care—there is something strange about the house—I can feel it."

To show fundamentaly contrasting ideas the author used ANTITHESIS : “That spoils my ghostliness, I am afraid, but I don’t care” A very striking antithesis is about John’s profession: “John is a physician and perhaps … that is one reason I do not get well faster.”

In the description of the house or the area, or when John is described, we see the PARALLELISM : “but John says”, “but John would not”; “he said”, “He is”, “he takes” 

Furthermore, I'd like to mentioned that ASSONANCES ( “and am absolutely forbidden”,  “there is something queer about it”, “get well faster”, “whichever it is”, “write for a while in spite”, “standing well back”, “take pains”, “paint and paper”, “head of my bed”, it gives the reader chance to remember some phrases.), and ALLITERATIONS (a hereditary estate, a haunted house height of”, “phosphates or phosphites”, “society and stimulus”, “paint and paper  in great patches”, “curves  commit suicide”, “repellent, almost revolting”, “sickly sulphur”.) occur very often and helps to remember some phrase, to show the inner world of the main character