Please provide two literary elements and devices in Kate Chopin's short story, "The Story of an Hour."

In Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour," there are a
number of literary elements and literary devices.

One
literary element in the story is conflict. There are several
examples of conflict in the story. One is man vs himself. When Mrs. Mallard first feels
that sense of freedom approaching her, she is
frightened.

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There was something coming to her and she was
waiting for it,
fearfully.

When Mrs. Mallard
expresses her unhappiness with her marriage, this is man vs
man.

There
would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and
women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature. A kind
intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime as she looked upon it
in that brief moment of
illumination.

When Mrs.
Mallard dies at the end, the doctors say she died of heart failure: from "the joy that
kills." This is man vs society in that no person of that male-dominated era could
imagine Mrs. Mallard's death coming from the shock of disappointment; they could only
imagine it was from relief or joy.

The second element is
irony, which is the difference between what you expect to happen
and what really happens. When Brently Mallard comes through the door, one might expect
Mrs. Mallard to be happy, but she is "fatally"
disappointed.

In terms of literary devices, one that is
used is personification, which is giving human traits to non-human
things—as shown in the line below:

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Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical
exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her
soul.

Exhaustion cannot haunt
anyone.

Another literary device is
onomatopoeia, which describes the sound it stands
for:

The notes
of a distant song which someone was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows
were twittering in the
eaves.

"Twittering" is a word
that describes the chattering sound that sparrows make.