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?

Aallegory
Birony
Callusion
Dsymbolism

Verified Answer :

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)