Question

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

Answer 1

can you eliminate any?

Answer 2

yea

Answer 3

which ones?

Answer 4

A

Answer 5

ok, good. is this ironic at all?

Answer 6

lol idk i took a wild guess

Answer 7

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?