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How is figurative language used in "The Selfish Giant" by Oscar Wilde?
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Figurative language moves away from literal language to add extra meaning, color, or dimension to a text.
Wilde uses a good deal of figurative language in this children's story.
Wilde is best known as a humorist, and he can't resist tossing a funny line into his story. Here, he creates humor through the use of oxymoron. An oxymoron occurs when two opposing words or ideas are put together. In the following sentence, Wilde puts together the idea of talking for a long period of time, seven years, with the opposing idea that the giant has little to say: