9. read these lines from alfred, lord tennyson’s “ulysses.” “it little profits that an idle king,/by this still hearth, among these barren crags,/match’d with an aged wife, i mete and dole/unequal laws unto a savage race,/that horde, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.”

which of the following is the speaker lamenting in the passage above?
the long­-ago death of his wife
a lack of true fulfillment in his life
living in a constant state of danger
the degree of authority he is forced to wield

The "most dangerous game" is a short story about a hunter, rainsford, who ends up getting hunted himself on ship-trap island by another man. this passage is part of the story's exposition. what technique does the author use to foreshadow the plot twist which is to come? a) the humor that the men share at the beginning of the story changes into tragedy and horror in an ironic way. b) whitney's lack of empathy for the hunted foreshadows that he will have to learn how the hunted feels-- the hard way. c) whitney's inability to see the island, even though he is known to have great vision, foreshadows his blindness about hunting. d) rainsford's lack of empathy for the hunted foreshadows that he will have to learn how the hunted feels-- the hard way.