Discuss the figurative writing style of Oscar Wilde in ''The Nightingale and the Rose".

Oscar Wilde uses a myriad of literary techniques in "The
Nightingale and the Rose" because the purpose of this specific literary work was to produce an
allegorical prose which can relate the topic of altruistic and sacrificial
love.

Some of the literary techniques that you can encounter in the
short story are: Metaphor, since the blood of the nightingale being poured over the white rose
symbolically colored the rose red.  Another figure of speech is paradox, since the way that the
nightingale was betrayed by the lover for whom he sacrificed his life. Another technique we see
is obviously personification in the characteristics that the nightingale portrays, since it is
given human and emotional qualities although it is a bird.

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