This sentence would be taking advantage of "hyperbole" since it is using an exaggerated statement to further a basic idea--not to be taken literally that the fire actually "swallowed up" the house.
The Proclamation of 1763 was issued by the British at the end of the French and Indian War to appease Native Americans by checking the encroachment of European settlers on their lands. ... In the centuries since the proclamation, it has become one of the cornerstones of Native American law in the United States and Canada.
Answer:
the First Folio of 1623
Explanation:
two acting colleagues of Shakespeare who oversaw the printing of the first collected edition of his works, the First Folio of 1623.
20 years would be my answer
