The following question is based on your reading of “The Ramayana.”

Identify the bolded words in the following passage and answer the questions that follow. "Thus spoke the Self-existent Sire: / Then swiftly from the blazing pyre / The circling flames were backward rolled, / And, rising in his gentle hold / Alive unharmed the Maithil dame, / The Lord of Fire embodied came. / Fair as the morning was her sheen, And gold and gems adorned the queen. / Her form in crimson robes arrayed, / Her hair was bound in glossy braid."

How is Sita compared to the fire?
a.
She is compared through her position in the fire.
c.
She is compared through visual imagery, such as color.
b.
She is compared to the Lord of Fire.
d.
She is only symbolic of the fire.