wild grape-vines clamber to the tops of the highest trees, spreading umbrella-wise over the branches, and their festooned floating trailers wave as silken fringe in the play of the wind.
this sentence from the passage contains an example of
a) allusion.
b) hyperbole.
c) irony.

A)

Explanation:

This sentence is from the artwork ''The Song of the Cardinal'' and it is showing us the example of an allusion in literature.

An allusion is considering an indirect or passing reference of an idea and by that, it is giving the readers more meaning without much explanation or description of something. Audiences and readers need to make their connection to the allusion so they can get a complete idea of it. Grapevines that are climbing up to the tops are usually used for alluding because they are going up and they are referring to a growth of a person's spirituality. And when the person grow and get confidence, the same one can ''play in the wind'', which means that the ones can got trough trouble like it is a sort of a game.