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

Answer:

allusion

Explanation:

sometimes when i am writing, i make a reference to something i might have read in the past - or maybe  a person, place....put the word allusion in place of the word reference

For example,

He made an allusion to the Hundred Acre Woods when he wrote about the animals all talking to the bear.....