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Form correct pairs.

Match each excerpt to the figure of speech it uses.

Tiles

Life is but a walking shadow.
(from Macbethby William Shakespeare)

alliteration

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)

metaphor

Touch each object you want to touch as if 
tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. 
(from The Seeing See Littleby Helen Keller)

onomatopoeia

Pairs



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the first one is a metaphor, followed by alliteration then the last statement is an onomatopoeia
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