Renaissance is your answer for this one.
That really depends on the scene. Can you edit your question and then send a message to be to answer it? I could maybe see an attachment and or you could type the stanza you're having trouble with, and I could take a look at it for you. Send a message to me. Hope I helped a little! Bye!
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..
