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15-12-2015
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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!

allegory

irony

allusion

symbolism

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WorldlyGlass49 WorldlyGlass49

15-12-2015

The answer is 'allusion', because here Hemingway is alluding, or making a reference to Marius, who was a Roman general and statesman.

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xxxsanyeo xxxsanyeo

27-11-2018

answer is 'allusion'

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