Which literary device is employed in the following sentence from Herman Melville’s short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener"?
And here Bartleby makes his home, sole spectator of a solitude which he has seen all populous—a sort of innocent and transformed Marius brooding among the ruins of Carthage!
The correct answer for the statement above would be option C. Allusion is a figurative language which uses an expression to briefly or indirectly refer to a person, place, thing, event, idea or political significance.
