B. But only so an hour
the word only indicates that "an hour" is considered a short time period for the flower, and so it represents "the youth" of it being a flower before it becomes like the rest
Verbal irony<span> is a figure of speech. The speaker intends to be understood as meaning something that contrasts with the literal or usual meaning of what he says. The different sorts of discrepancy between the meaning of what is said and what is in fact on the particular occasion meant with it give rise to different kinds of verbal irony</span>
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<span>Blaeser, in "Rituals of Memory," expresses being torn when she was in school, as school signified the beginning of her acting differently while in school and while out of school. She was both German Catholic and Native American, and her family pulled her in a different direction than she wanted to go. To compensate, she learned both German and a Native American language, Anishinaabe, and she considered later in life how the German and Native American communities of her rural Minnesotan home coexisted.</span>
I think it would be either C or A, but I think C is more right than A
The Answer to this would be letter D: discomfort can be endured, but abuse will not tolerated