Possible Clues:

• Emphatic form of 'it'
• Is felt, perhaps, to be egocentric?
• Speaks for ___ (is obvious)
• The thing is sprightly - the very thing
• Very sprightly, so it is
• Pronoun used for emphasis
• '... is fear ___'
• Word of emphasis
• Reflexive pronoun is left out
• In ___ (per se)