Which of these sentences from the short story "the yellow wallpaper" by charlotte perkins gilman uses verbal irony? • if only the top pattern could be gotten off from the under one! i mean to try it, little by little. • i got up softly to see if the paper did move, and when i came back john was awake. • it is so hard to talk to john about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so. • i am securely fastened now by my well-hidden rope-you don't get me out in the road there!

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.