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

The statement is related to figurative language because it is a simile (a simile contains the words "like" or "as" to compare two unlike things), an alliteration (a phrase that has repeating vowel sounds at the beginning of two or more words in a sentence: "clinging like cobwebs"), and a personification (when an inanimate object is given human characteristics: "fear" was said to be "clinging").