It includes a couple personifications such as "hunger, ever at hand to jog his elbow," "<span>despair, ready to engulf him." The former means that hunger is ready to make him shake if he relaxes, and the latter means that the despair is about to overwhelm him.</span>
D, foodborne illness. The suffix borne indicates “from”, so it means “illness from food.”
The answer is A and b hope it helps
