Read the excerpt below and answer the question. At the sight of that gorgeous machine, I felt as if a dozen awls were stabbing my heart. What best describes the literary device employed in this excerpt from Ha Jin's "The Bane of the Internet"? A. metaphor B. personification C. simile D. symbol

I would say C: 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 ...