Some of Dr. Seuss’s most famous characters had meanings that would be lost on his young readers until adulthood; the title character in Yertle the Turtle, for instance, was based on Hitler, and the imperiled Who people in Horton Hears a Who represented the citizens of post-World War II Japan.
a. banal
b. manifest
c. oblique
d. nascent
e. allusive
f. lucid
