Identify the literary device 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

The correct answer for the given statement above would be option C. The literary device employed in the given sentence from Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" is allusion. Allusion is a figurative language which uses an expression to briefly or indirectly refer to a person, place, thing, event, idea or political significance. 

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