Match each excerpt to the figure of speech it uses.

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)

a)onomatopoeia
b)metaphor
c)alliteration

the answer is actually c   i just got done with the test.

1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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