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!. which literary device is employed in the following sentence ?

a.allegory
b.irony
c.allusion
d.symbolism

Answer 1

The answer is C: allusion

Answer 2

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.