Question

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

Answer 1

The answer is Allusion. :)

Answer 2

Allusion

Step-by-step explanation:

This is an example of allusion. Allusion is the name given to an indirect reference to something from an unrelated context. The author usually includes allusions in order to describe an item in an indirect way. In this case, the allusion is to the ruins of Carthage, an ancient civilization of merchants that was in conflict with Rome for most of its history.