Which excerpt from ”First Generation” of Dreaming in Cuban is the best example of magic realism? The family split up and Minnie was raised by a grandmother who can quote the Bible chapter and verse and drives a beat-up Cadillac with a CB radio in it.
We camped out under a sapodilla tree and listened to the pygmy owls with their old women’s voices.
Four blocks from her home, Lourdes smells her father’s cigar behind a catalpa tree. “Mi hija, have you forgotten me?” Jorge del Pino chides gently.
She combs her daughter’s room for the Jimi Hendrix poster she made her take down and tacks it back on the wall.

The family split up and Minnie was raised by a grandmother who can quote ... chapter and verse and drives a beat-up Cadillac with a CB radio in it. We camped out under a sapodilla tree and listened to the pygmy ... I would say this sentence has something of magic realism in it that the ... See top answers.

the answer should be the first one. "many people find his lyrics very moving."

it by far makes the most grammatical sense and is very objective, removing any first person from the original sentence and keeping with the sentence fluency.

(you didn't attach a copy of the poem, but i'm answering as best as i can)

since a simile compares two unlike things using like or as, it kind of gives an item the ability to do something it can't.

example: "the player was like a tiger on the field"

in this sentence, the simile conveys the idea that the player was fast and strong, like a tiger.