industrial expansion and population growth radically changed the face of the nation's cities.noise,traffic jams,slums,air pollution,and sanitation and health problems became commonplace.mass transit ,in the form of trolleys ,cable cars,and subways,was built ,and skyscrapers began to dominate city skylines.
This is a metaphor. unlike a simile, for example, Brave as a fox comma it does not use like or as. the definition of a metaphor is, a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable
allusion - chocolate is my Achilles heal
Analogy- school is to friends
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the meaning behind events and characters a ction