Question

Match each excerpt to the figure of speech it uses.

Alliteration <------>

Metaphor <----->

Onomatopeia <--->

Options

A. "Life is but a walk shadow"
B. "He could feel his heart pounding and then he heard the clack on stone and the leaping, dropping clicks of a small rock falling."
C. Tough each object you want to touch as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fall.

Answer 1

Alliteration would be with C, the repeated letter being T at the beginning of the words

Metaphor would be A, comparing life to a walk shadow

And Onomatopoeia would be B, the sounds being clicks and clack, as well as more minor examples like pounding and leaping

Answer 2

Answer: A: metaphor, B: onomatopeia, and C: alliteration.

Explanation: a metaphor is a figure of speech that consists in making a direct comparison between elements that aren't obviously related, in order to create an image in the reader's mind, the sentence "life is but a walk shadow" is a metaphor. Onomatopeia is the use words that include sounds that are similar to the noises the words refer to, for example the words "clack" and "cliks" in the second sentence. Alliteration is a literary device that consists in the repetition of the beginning sounds of consecutive words, or words that are close to each other, for example the repetition of the "t" sound in the words "tough," "to," "touch," "tomorrow," and "tactile" in the sentence C.