"there's a man in the habit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella" belong to the literary genre of fantasy parody magical realism historical nonfiction

the correct answer is:

this is an example of the writer telling through description rather than showing through dialogue.

sometimes writers like to explain explicitely what's happening instead of adding dialogues of the situations., which is the case in this passage,

the answer is b, it brings the reader closer to the action.

it would've been a if the word had been determined, not conceited

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