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

I believe it is c, allusion

Answer 2

The correct answer for the statement above would be option C.  Allusion is a figurative language which uses an expression to briefly or indirectly refer to a person, place, thing, event, idea or political significance.