A scarcity or lack of something
I would say pathos because there is an emotional appeal!
This is from Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe. If you have choices it would be a good idea to list them. These lines are said to Mephistopheles, who is a devil pretty high up in "the organization."
The Catholic Church was taking a bit a beating at the time (Marlowe was part of the Renaissance movement), and so he his making the comment that an old Franciscan Friar would suit a devil best. It is credited with being comic relief.
Frankly I don't find it so, but if it is one of your answers, take it.
Answer:
“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman that describes the narrator’s depression following the birth of her child.
The narrator’s husband, John, a respected physician, diagnoses her behavior as “hysteria” and prescribes rest.
John prohibits the narrator from writing, and she cannot stand to visit her baby.
The narrator spends all day sitting in bed, and she begins to see a woman struggling inside the room’s yellow wallpaper.
Finally, in an effort to release the woman, the narrator tears down the wallpaper. When John comes in, he finds the narrator creeping around the room and faints.
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