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!. which literary device is employed in the following sentence ?
a.allegory
b.irony
c.allusion
d.symbolism
The correct answer is C, 'allusion'. Because that word means to reference another story, or something in history, the real world. In this passage, it is referred to Marius, a Roman general and statesman.
