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

The literary device employed in the sentence is (C) allusion. Allusion, in literature, is a figure of speech that consists in a reference to a person, thing, place or event. In this sentence, the author makes reference to "a sort of innocent and transformed Marius" to explain that Bartleby was mute and solitary in a world in ruins.

the answer should be d) he was one of those young thousands who greeted the war with a certain amount of relief, welcoming the liberation from webs of tangled emotion" since it is the best option because it shows his desire to free himself.

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