Select the corrected in the passage Richard Cornell use personification often in his short story "The Most Dangerous Game" Which line from this is an ad
personification?
Til give him a trail to follow." muttered Rainsford, and he struck off from the rude path he had been following into the tradities wees
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 days of the lo
Night found him leg-weary. with hands and face lashed by the branches, on a thickly wooded ridge. He knew it would be insane to the on
through the dark, even if he had the strength. His need for rest was imperative and he thought "hare played the fox now I must play the
the fable" A big tree with a thick trunk and outspread branches was near by, and taking care to leave not the sitest mark. he died up into
the crotch, and stretching out on one of the broad limbs, after a fashion, rested. Rest brought himnes confidence and dimesta eding 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 a deri
An apprehensive night crawled slowly by like a wounded snake and sleep did not visit Rainsford, although the silence of a dead word wearson
the jungle. Toward morning when a dingy gray was varnishing the sky, the cry of some started bird focused Rainstord'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 himse
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 his eyes foxed in utmost concentration on the ground before him. He paused, almost beneath
the tree dropped to his knees and studied the ground. Rainsford's impulse was to hurt 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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