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!

A.
allegory
B.
irony
C.
allusion
D.
symbolism

Answer 1

C. Allusion is correct. I took the test and got it right!

Answer 2

C. Allusion

Step-by-step explanation:

It infers toward a person, in this case, it's "Bartleby, the Scrivener". Hope this helped!