His monologue prevents him from interrupting other characters while they are having an aside during the speech.
Answer:
read is the past tence of read (lol)
Themselves.
The cue here is fight. Since the fight verb presents itself as plural then we should use themselves to satisfy correctly the sentence. Moreover, the use of itself is when the subject is singular.
For example,
The chair moved by itself which was a spooky gesture.
It would be personification because they have human like characteristics. It's not simile because it would need "like" or "as" to compare two things. Hyperbole means that the statement is not meant to be taken literal. Lastly, analogy is a comparison between two things.