Read the excerpt from "the most dangerous game." laughter shook the general. "how extraordinarily droll you are! " he said. "one does not expect nowadays to find a young man of the educated class, even in america, with such a naive, and, if i may say so, mid-victorian point of view. it's like finding a snuff-box in a limousine. ah, well, doubtless you had puritan ancestors. so many americans appear to have had. i'll wager you'll forget your notions when you go hunting with me. you've a genuine new thrill in store for you, mr. rainsford." " you, i'm a hunter, not a murderer." "dear me," said the general, quite unruffled, "again that unpleasant word. but i think i can show you that your scruples are quite ill founded." which detail best reveals that rainsford opposes zaroff’s idea of the ideal prey? "how extraordinarily droll you are! " he said. “you've a genuine new thrill in store for you, mr. rainsford.” " you, i'm a hunter, not a murderer." “but i think i can show you that your scruples are quite ill founded.”

a story is an account of imaginary or real people and events told for entertainment and a novel long narrative

question:

it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.