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 correct option is this: TABLEWARE WAS RARER IN ELIZABETHAN TIMES THAN IT IS TODAY.
From the passage, it can be seen that, during Elizabethan times, people has to go to invited diners armed with their own spoons and knives. During dinner, cups were not placed on the table because they were scarce, instead many guests share one cup. All these show that tableware were scarce commodities during that time.
He (B) suffocates him. Edgar Allan Poe LOVER <3
The substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant also : the expression so substituted.