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

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