I think they are played romantically as heroines.
His sense to go to war is not qoth murder but thought the fine sense of the law and when not to go to war is when an individual evildoer is done and said evildoer will be punished for said evildoers's actions
Sounds like the character is full of herself yet realizes that people view her choices and behavior differently. My opinion :)
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..
