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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!"

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



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The sentence from 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' uses the literary device of allusion, referencing Marius brooding among the ruins of Carthage.


Explanation:

The literary device employed in the sentence from Herman Melville's short story 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' is allusion. The sentence alludes to the Roman statesman and general Marius brooding among the ruins of Carthage.


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