Which best identifies the magic realism found in the excerpt?
“lourdes, i’m back,” jorge del pino greets his daughter forty days after she buried him with his panama hat, his cigars, and a bouquet of violets in a cemetery on the border of brooklyn and queens.

his words are warm and close as a breath. lourdes turns, expecting to find her father at her shoulder but she sees only the dusk settling on the tops of the oak trees, the pink tinge of sliding darkness.

“don’t be afraid, mi hija. just keep walking and i’ll explain,” jorge del pino tells his daughter.

the sunset flares behind a row of brownstones linking them as if by a flaming ribbon.

lourdes’s father returning to her from the dead

the list of items lourdes buried with her father

the dusk settling on the tops of the trees

the flaring sunset behind the brownstones

The magic realism used in the above excerpt can be identified by this sentence:

Lourdes’s father returning to her from the dead.

Magic realism was an outcome of the increase in rationalism, reason, science, and logic in the Western World. It was a step to move out of the rational world and come into the world of fantasy where magic, supernatural and, things related to these merge with the realistic world. Magic realism coincides both fantasy and realism in it. All the other options can happen in reality but only the returning of someone who is dead can never happen in reality. Hence, it is an example of magic realism.

i'm not good at running

a. "to practice" is the best phrase to complete the sentence.

explanation:

during the summer, she likes to practice her soccer skills so that she is ready to play in the fall.

(note that : all the other options "the practicing of", "practice for" and "to do a practice on" are inappropriate as they make the sentence grammatically incorrect.)