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Read these lines: "By Red Flower Bagheera meant fire, only no creature in the jungle will call fire by its proper name. Every beast lives in deadly fear of it, and invents a hundred ways of describing it." Why do the animals say Red Flower?
AThey fear fire too much to name it plainly
BThey have no single word for the colour red
CThey think the flower grows beside the huts
DThey were taught the phrase by the villagers
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. They fear fire too much to name it plainly
1. 1. The quoted lines translate the phrase for the reader: Red Flower means fire.
2. 2. They then say no creature will use the proper name.
3. 3. The reason follows at once: every beast lives in deadly fear of it.
4. 4. Fear producing a hundred substitute descriptions is what the first option states.
_Source: The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1894)_
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