The matches are:
1. "A savage servility/slides by on grease" - Alliteration, when words that start with the same sound or same letter are used repeatedly.
2. "For the dark downward and vegetating kingdom" - Personification, is the metaphor used to paint an image in the mind of the reader; to emphasize a point.
3. "The monument sticks like a fish one" - Simile, that is when the words "like" or "as" are used to compare two different things.
4. "William James could almost hear the bronze negroes breathe" - Imagery, is the literary term to describe appealing to our senses.
This occurred in the 1800’s
We came;we saw;we conquered
Nobody’s doing that for 10 points