Sophocles included many literary devices that helped tell the story. The most used literary device in the play is dramatic irony. Another literary device used by Sophocles is characterization. In Oedipus the King, Sophocles used characterization to portray Oedipus as the tragic hero. A third literary device used in the play is flashback, which is where the story switches from the present to an event that occurred in the past.
You have left out a word in your question. What I suspect you meant to ask is "What literary device is used to ease some of the dramatic tension that has been established." If that is what you are asking, the answer is comic relief.
Dramatic irony
The literary device used is dramatic irony. The audience knows that the speaker is condemning himself to exile.
allusion
meter, rhyme, rhythm, symbolism, imagery, repetition, consonance, assonance, alliteration, enjambment
Yes, the phrase " the moonlight wasted itself on top of the tress " is personification. As personification is a literary device in which animals and non-living things are compared to living things and human beings.
Onomatopoeia is the name of the literary device in which sounds are written into words.
No
First-person narration is a literary device that deals with blatantly negative language.
The literary device that is used here is repetition.
A literary device is a way a person writes. Depending on what type of message a writer wishes to deliver, they will use a specific literary device. Two types are literary elements, such as the plot or setting, and literary techniques, such as metaphor and simile.
Simile
literary device
The literary device that seals swam freely through the icy sea is assonance.
The literary device you are referring to is called a motif. A motif is a recurring element that has symbolic significance and contributes to the overall theme of a literary work.
Alliteration, which involves repeating a sound in a sentence can be illustrated by the above example.