Question

Which sentences in this excerpt from "I Talk of Dreams" by W. D. Howells illustrates that it is a reflective essay?

There are things in dreams very awful, which would not be at all so in waking—quite witless and aimless things, which at the time were of such baleful effect that it remains forever. I remember dreaming when I was quite a small boy, not more than ten years old, a dream which is vivider in my mind now than anything that happened at the time. I suppose it came remotely from my reading of certain "Tales of the Grotesque and the Arabesque," which had just then fallen into my hands; and it involved simply an action of the fire-company in the little town where I lived. They were working the brakes of the old fire-engine, which would seldom respond to their efforts, and as their hands rose and fell they set up the heart-shaking and soul-desolating cry of "Arms Poe! Arms Poe! Arms Poe!" This and nothing more was the body of my horror; and if the reader is not moved by it

Answer 1

“I remember dreaming when I was quite a small boy, not more than ten years old….”

And the second one being “This and nothing more was the body of my horror; and if the reader is not moved by it the fault is his and not mine….”