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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!

a) allegory
b) irony
c) allusion
d) symbolism

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