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Refer to the following lines from On the Move by Thom Gunn.
‘On motorcycles, up the road, they come:
Small, black, as flies hanging in heat, the Boys,
Until the distance throws them forth, their hum
Bulges to thunder held by calf and thigh.’
What figure of speech is used in the underlined section?