The answer is: [B]: was saying all the things .
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Note: A 'prepositional phrase' ALWAYS begins with a preposition.
Answer choice: [B] — "was saying all the things"—is the only answer choice given that does not begin with a preposition.
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Three They are all pretty un-important to the rest of the story. Why didn't you just google this?
I would say, Simile because this compares the feeling of seeing the machine to being stabbed by a dozen awls. Similes use like or as to compare two different objects, so that is what leads me to believe this. It cannot be a symbol, because that does not represent anything. It cannot be personification because it does not take a nonliving object and give it human features. I would say that's it a metaphor, but it uses as, so I firmly believe that it is a simile..
