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he could feel his heart pounding and then he heard the clack on stone and the leaping, dropping clicks of a small rock falling.



is this a metaphor or onomatopoeia?



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User Jonny
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Onomatopoeia: the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.

-pounding
-clack
-clicks

Those are examples of onomatopoeia.
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User Khurshid
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