Match each excerpt to the figure of speech it uses.

Life is but a walking shadow.

(from Macbeth by William Shakespeare)

He could feel his heart pounding and then he

heard the clack on stone and the leaping,

dropping clicks of a small rock falling,

(from For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway),

Touch each object you want to touch as if

tomorrow your tactile sense would fail.

(from The Seeing See Little by Helen Keller),

alliteration

alliteration

metaphor

onomatopoeia

But which one goes to which

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Barbara Holden · Answer 1

Macbeth - Metaphor

For Whom the Bell Tolls - onomatopoeia

The Seeing See Little - alliteration