Read 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?

A. allegory

B. irony

C. allusion

D. symbolism

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Santos Carr

2 November, 18:50

Read 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?

A. allegory

B. irony

C. allusion

D. symbolism

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Darren Mendez · Answer 1

The literary device which is employed is C. Allusion

In literature, Allusion is a figurative speech that is used to indirectly refers to a subject, an object, or a place. From the excerpt, we can see that the writer highlight the gloomy condition of Bartleby's house by referring it to Ruins of Carthage (an ancient abandoned harbor in Tunisia)