Answer:
The sting that followed upon the striking of his fingers against his leg ceased so quickly that he was startled
Explanation:
The sentence in the excerpt that demonstrates a blunt portrayal of natural life is The sting that followed upon the striking of his fingers against his leg ceased so quickly that he was startled.
This shows that nature is indifferent to the suffering of humans. Nature tries to numb the man's fingers while he was about having a meal and despite the man's best efforts at gaining sensation to his fingers by striking his finger on his legs, it was useless because nature was unrelenting and indifferent to his suffering.
The conflict that keeps Rainsford awake was that he couldn't sleep because he was hearing weird sounds. That was an internal conflict because it was with himself and he couldn't put himself to sleep. But also, he was worried because of all the things that the general Zaroff told him about how he invented a new animal to hunt which was men.
<u>Words containing prefix meaning in 'favor of':</u>
The prefix meaning in favour of is ‘pro’
. A prefix is an affix placed before a word. Adding it changes the meaning of the word.
For example adding non (without) to sense changes the meaning of the word. ‘pro’ is added to many words namely
The prefix opposing ‘pro-’ is ‘anti-’ and ‘pro’ has other meanings too. It also means ‘forward’ and is also attached to stems not used as words.
