The Nightingale and the Rose
Oscar Wilde
Text Analysis Structure
1) Nightingale struck by the “the mystery of love”2)Nightingale looking for a red rose to  facilitate the love 3) Nightingale sacrificing her life for a red rose 4) Student discarding the red rose
Genre of the story
Fairy tale (1) personifications of birds, insects, animals and trees (2) vivid, simple narration---typical of the oral tradition of fairy tales. (3) symbolic meaning given to words (4) repetitive pattern