The story is told in strict first-person narration
It was Peter Vanderdonk, a descendant of a historian, who convinced the villagers to accept Rip Van Winkle's story. He said that everything Rip described about the time period he was coming from was true, and that there was no need to doubt his words. Thus, everyone believed Peter (as he was a successor of a learned man) and Rip was readmitted into his society.
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It is only possible to find the cause and effect relationship in the article, after reading it. In that case, you should look in the text for the moment when a situation happens as a result of another situation. Therefore, the text must show an element (cause) which, when it happened, caused the creation of another element (effect).
Magic realism is a Latin American literary style in which surreal, not possible elements are combined with nonfictional elements.
Here the answer is A: <span>A.Lourdes’s father returning to her from the dead.
In the real world, people don't return from the dead, so this is the non-real element of the story. The rest of the story is very realistic, so the combination of the father's resurrection and the rest of the story is very typical of magic realism
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