My father knew I understood more than I could say. He told me stories about Cuba after Columbus came. He said that the Spaniards wiped out more Indians with smallpox than with muskets. Which best describes an element of magic realism used by Garcia in this excerpt?
She shows the close relationship that Pilar had with her father.
She connects the events to the colonial history of Latin America.
She is a modern writer developing a story about Spanish history.
She characterizes Columbus’s discovery as an extraordinary event.

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answer: the pronoun that is used in the given subject above is the word "himself" which refers to the noun or antecedent "maestro". the pronoun is an example of an intensive pronoun. intensive pronouns are used to add emphasis to the subject of the sentence and it uses reflexive pronouns such as myself, yourself, himself, herself, themselves and ourselves. 

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