The fairy tale "The Selfish Giant" by Oscar Wilde has a
lot of figurative language and figures of speech as it often occurs in this
genre.
When the giant repeatedly says "My own garden is my
own garden", is an example of anaphora, which is the repetition of a phrase or word for
a specific purpose. Sure he does not use it throughout the story, but the phrase is
repeated.
In the description of the garden you find many
similes such as flowers like stars, and other
comparisons.
Personification is also found as Spring and
the seasons, the birds, and many things of nature decidedly stopped being in the Selfish
Giant's garden because of the lack of children and "forgot" that garden
altogether.
You could say there is synecdoche in the phrase
"children are the most beautiful flowers of them all", which arguably is also a
personification, and there is a lot of metaphors in both the meaning of the selfish
giant (representing opression, overpower), and the redemption by the child who kissed
him and took him to Paradise. The white blossoms are also representative of
purity.
Hope this helps a bit.
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