He is using appealing words to help sell of the donkey. This is made clear at the end when it says," Who will bid for this exceptional creature"
The detail that best reveals that Mr. Rainsford opposes Zaroff's idea of the ideal prey is Mr. Rainsford's response near the end of the passage when he states that he is a hunter, not a murderer. This statement shows the reader that Mr. Rainsford believes that Zaroff hunting humans as prey makes him a murderer.
Personification
this is achieved by giving an inanimate object the characters and behaviours of humans.
In this case, the wind is given the behavior of whispering.
You did not provide the options, however, most loyal to Odysseus was definitely Penelope who waited for him for all those years even though there were high chances that he was dead. She did not want to marry anyone else and devised a plan to keep being a widow.
