What is the exposition in "The Most Dangerous Game"?

Exposition is a rhetorical
device used to provide background information about events and characters. In "The Most
Dangerous Game," author Richard Connell develops the exposition in the opening
paragraphs. We are told that Sanger Rainsford is a famous big game hunter and that he is
sailing to South America to hunt jaguars along the Amazon River. We discover that he has
little regard for the animals he kills, and that he believes they have no understanding
and feel no fear. A great deal of exposition centers around General Zaroff, primarily
during his talks with Rainsford at dinner. He tells Rainsford about his past life in
Russia, his military service, and his great love of hunting. We later find that Zaroff
has grown bored with hunting wild animals, and that this boredom has led him to hunt a
new, more dangerous game: human beings. Zaroff tells Rainsford about the men that he has
deliberately shipwrecked in order to use them as human prey. During his hunt of
Rainsford, we learn some of the tricks that Rainsford has learned during his career, and
he eventually uses them with some success.