Which word from the paragraph the reader understand the meaning of the underlined word?

" spare me, i beseech you," the mouse pleaded with the lion. "though i am a lowly mouse, you never know when i might come to your aid. even the mighty king of the beasts needs at times, and if you release me today, i will be able to rescue you in the future! "
the lion merely chuckled in reply.

a.
chuckled

b.
pleaded

c.
spare

d.
rescue

this passage has a lot of figurative language like examples are

the day we found the sharks' teeth was foggy and cool.

moisture hung in the air so thick you could almost see it sparkling in the dim sunlight.

figurative language can not be taken seriously it is just sayings.

about what?

lo

jenkins wanted the narrator to write a ghost story for his magazine. he wanted the narrator to give the readers a story based on the supernatural. he wanted him to give the readers real 'horror' stories and not the type of live ghosts which he had presented in his earlier stories.