What romantic element is present in this excerpt from “Rip Van Winkle”? In a long ramble of the kind, on a fine autumnal day, Rip had unconsciously scrambled to one of the highest parts of the Kaatskill mountains. Panting and fatigued, he threw himself, late in the afternoon, on a green knoll, covered with mountain herbage, that crowned the brow of a precipice. From an opening between the trees, he could overlook all the lower country for many a mile of rich woodland. He saw at a distance the lordly Hudson, far, far below him, moving on its silent but majestic course, with the reflection of a purple cloud, or the sail of a lagging bark, here and there sleeping on its glassy bosom and at last losing itself in the blue highlands.

A.
the emphasis on individual choice
B.
the emphasis on human o
C.
the emphasis on the beauty of nature
D.
the emphasis on the importance of society
E.
the emphasis on scientific discovery