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

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Karissa Bates

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5 June, 01:15

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

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Drake Hernandez · Answer 1

This sentence contains several literary devices.

Personification is used to describe the vines, which "clamber" as a person would. Also, the floating trailers "wave," another human action.

Next, a simile is used to describe the way these floating trailers wave: AS silken fringe.

Finally, alliteration is used to describe the "festooned floating" trailers.