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'll give him a trail to follow," muttered Rainsford, and he struck off from the rude path he had 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 a 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 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 a 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 his eyes fixed 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 hurl himself down like a panther, but he saw that the general's right
hand held
something metallic--a small automatic pistol.