People, being prisoners of ____________, have made failing a basic metaphor for failure, from the fall of the stock market to the fall of government.
- politics
- gravity
- greed
- turbulence
- emotion
Answer(s): B
Explanation:
The author says that the use of the word “fall”, as a metaphor to represent “failure”, arises out of the people being prisoners of something. Among the given choices, it is “gravity” that is the best choice, because it is gravity that brings every physical object from a higher (success) to a lower (failure) level. So, “gravity” is the answer.
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