Personification
"<em>it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses</em>" - Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
HYPERBOLE
<em>"Napoleon is always right" </em>- George Orwell - Animal farm
METAPHOR
<em>"The city reeked of crime" </em>- Dickens - Christmas Carol
SIMILE
<em>"As dead as a doornail" - </em>Dickens - Christmas carol
Private theaters were a sign of social significance, You had to be rich and popular to access them. especially if it was to see Shakespeare.
The immediate result was that over 650 000 people were given the rights of voting, and numerous city-states were given the status of separate parliamentary boroughs.