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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"

allegory
irony
allusion
symbolism

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allegory
irony
allusion makes sense here
symbolism
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The answer is allusion.
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