Read this statement: "but old fears have a way of clinging like cobwebs." how is this statement related to figurative language?

a.) this statement demonstrates personification.
b.) this statement demonstrates a hyperbole.
c.) this statement demonstrates a onomatoepia.
d.) this demonstrates a simile.

The great depression, which lasted throughout the 1930s in the united states, affected many people, and it had a devastating impact on an entire subset of the u.s. population. modernist writer john steinbeck wrote about the toll the depression took on these families, many of whom were forced to leave their farms and find other sources of income.