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OpenStudy (anonymous):

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

OpenStudy (anonymous):

can you eliminate any?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

yea

OpenStudy (anonymous):

which ones?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

A

OpenStudy (anonymous):

ok, good. is this ironic at all?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

lol idk i took a wild guess

OpenStudy (anonymous):

ok, well an allegory is a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one, so would this be an allegory?

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