These are some ways you can finish it.
A wolf hunting for its prey.
A rock
Miss Trunchbull from Matilda
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..
The participle in the sentence (the participle is stacked because it is a verb being used to modify a noun) modifies the word NEWSPAPERS
Answer: I think the answer is C.
Explanation: If I was a employee and someone said " wouldn't you do the same if you had the chance " that would seriously get my attention. I do not know this for sure but to me sounds like the reasonable answer.
