Personification
"it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses" - Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
HYPERBOLE
"Napoleon is always right" - George Orwell - Animal farm
METAPHOR
"The city reeked of crime" - Dickens - Christmas Carol
SIMILE
"As dead as a doornail" - Dickens - Christmas carol