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Richard Connell uses personification often in his short story "The Most Dangerous Game "Which line from this excerpt is an example of
personification?
Til 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. "t 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 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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