The most dangerous game zaroff explains the rules of the game to rainsford while dressed “faultlessly in the tweeds of a country squire,” eating french food and drinking fine wine. the author uses this contrast a. to portray the general as superior to his prey. b. to tell the reader that rainsford has reason to envy zaroff. c. to create a dark and foreboding mood. d. to illustrate the theme that although humans are civilized, their violent urges still exist.

Which if the following can you infer about maggie?

Millicent sat down at her desk in the big study hall. tomorrow she would come to school, proudly, laughingly, without lipstick, with her brown hair straight and shoulder length, and then everybody would know, even the boys would know, that she was one of the elect. teachers would smile , thinking perhaps: so now they've picked millicent arnold. i never would have guessed it. —"initiation," sylvia plath what inference can be made about millicent from the way she is characterized indirectly? millicent is a student with straight brown hair. millicent does not usually take care of her appearance. millicent has not always been popular.

What type of external conflict occurs in the excerpt from “stephen crane’s own story”? it was now that the first mate showed a sign of losing his grip. to us who were trying in all stages of competence and experience to launch the lifeboat he raged in all terms of fiery satire and hammerlike abuse. but the boat moved at last and swung down toward the water. a. person versus person b. person versus nature c. person versus society d. person versus self i think its either b or d.