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Maya Angelou, through her motivational poem "Still I Rise", employs allusion, imagery, and irony to evoke a feeling of hopefulness in the oppressed female African American community.

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The entire poem is ironic because Angelou says that the very same people who are trying to keep her down, are the same people who are giving her the strength and resilience to survive.

Example:
" You may shoot me with your words,

You may cut me with your eyes,

You may kill me with your hatefulness,

But still, like air, I’ll rise."

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In "Still I Rise" Maya Angelou utilizes imagery to not only depict the hardships that people continually place on her, but to also convey the hope that she will continue to move forward in life.

Examples:
"Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed heads and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?"

"I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide "

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Throughout the poem, Angelou alludes to past transgressions against African Americans specifically, slavery.

Examples:
"You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt"

"Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave."

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Yellow Wallpaper and Still I Rise project the hardships faced by a female narrator through a first person point of view. The narrators both posses resilience as their opinions are rejected, Angelou in regards to her protest to the mistreatment of African American women and Jane with her postpartum depression.  The women repeatedly  return the focus of the literary piece to a motif: Angelou continuing to rise above her hardships and Jane obsessing over the wallpaper.