1.) Life is but a walking shadow.
(from Macbeth by William Shakespeare)
2.) 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)
3.) Touch each object you want to touch as if
tomorrow your tactile sense would fail.
(from The Seeing See Little by Helen Keller)
match up with these...
a.) alliteration
b.) metaphor
c.) onomatopoeia