Click to read the passage from "The Nose," by Nikolai Gogol. Then answer the question.
Magical realism is a genre that has magical elements but is told in an
otherwise realist style. How do the word choices in these paragraphs suggest
a genre of magical realism?
A. The scene structured as a dialogue between two characters in
their own informal language,
B. The imagery of food suggests the events are an unexpected
delight
C. The joke in the first paragraph shows that the events of the story
will be lighthearted.
D. The unusual events are told in a matter-of-fact style.