Select the correct text in the passage. Richard Connell uses personification often in his short story 'The Most Dangerous Game." Which line from this excerpt is an example of
personification?
*I'II give him a trail to follow." muttered Rainsford, and he struck off from the rude path he nad been following into the trackless wilderness. He
executed a series of intricate loops: he doubled on his trail again and again, recalling all the lore of the fox hunt, and all the dodges of the fox.
Night found him leg-weary, with hands and face lashed by the branches, on thickly wooded ridge. He knew it would be insane to blunder on
through the dark, even if he had the
strength. His need for rest was imperative and he thought, "I have played the fox, now I must play the cat of
the fable." A big tree with a thick trunk and outspread branches was near by, and, taking care to leave not the slightest mark, he climbed up into
on the crotch, and, stretching out on one of the broad limbs, after a fashion, rested. Rest
brought him new confidence and almost a feeling of
security. Even so zealous a hunter as General Zaroff could not trace him there, he told himself; only the devil himself could follow that
complicated trail through the jungle after dark. But perhaps the general was devil..
An apprehensive night crawled slowly by like a wounded snake and sleep did not visit Rainsford, although the silence of a dead world was on
the jungle. Toward morning when a dingy gray was varnishing the sky, the cry of some startled bird focused Rainsford's attention in that
direction.
Something was coming through the bush, coming slowly, carefully, coming by the same winding way Rainsford had come. He flattened himself
down on the limb and, through a screen of leaves almost as thick as tapestry, he watched. .. . That which was approaching was a man.
It was General Zaroff. He made his way along with nis eyes fixed in utmost concentration ( the ground before him. He paused, almost beneath
the tree, dropped to his knees and studied the ground. Rainsford's impulse was to hurl himself down like a panther, but he saw that the
general's right hand held something metallic--a small automatic pistol.
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