Question

the literary devices used in Lord Byron's poem"Roll on Thou Deep and Dark Blue Oceans".

Answer 1

"Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean—roll!

Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;

Man marks the earth with ruin—his control

Stops with the shore;—upon the watery plain

The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain

A shadow of man’s ravage, save his own,

When for a moment, like a drop of rain,

He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan,

Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown."

- Ode to the Ocean

Rhetoric devices:

1. Personification: First, we get to see that the "ocean" is personified. Personification imaginatively represents the natural world, inanimate objects, or abstract ideas as possessing human qualities. This figure of speech gives non-human agents a human face by investigating them with action verbs that describes human doings.

2. Hyperbole: The phrase "ten thousand" is a hyperbole. Hyperbole is a figure of speech is a deliberate and extravagant exggeration.

3. Alliteration: "Man marks" is an alliteration. Alliteration is the repition of initial consonant sound in the stressed syllables or successive or nearly successive words.

4. Pathetic fallacy: The earth is shown to be actively hostile towards human beings. Consider this sentence, "his control

Stops with the shore;—upon the watery plain

The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain

A shadow of man’s ravage, save his own, "

5. Metaphor: The sea is referred to as "watery plain" is an example of metaphor. A metaphor is a rhetorical device that transfers meaning from one field of reference to another. A sea is compared with a plain.

6. Syndeton: The last line is a syndeton.

Answer 2

Literary devices are techniques which the writers or poets use to craft  a special and pointed effect in their writing.

It is used in order to convey information or with an intention to help the reader understand writing with a deep level of understanding.  

The literary device that is used in Lord Byron's poem"Roll on Thou Deep and Dark Blue Oceans" is Hyperbole, Imagery and Metaphor.