Question

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Which of the following sentences best demonstrates rhetorical questioning in Odysseus speech to persuade his sailors to trust him for their battle against Charybdis and Scylla ?

A. “Heads up, lads!/ we must obey the orders as I give them./ Get the oarshafts in your hands, and lay back / hard on your benches ; bit these breaking seas./ Zeus help us pull us away before we founder

B. “Friends , have we never been in danger before this ? More fearsome, is it now, than when the Cyclops penned us in the cave ? What power he had !/ did I not keep my nerve, and use my wits/ to find a way out for us

C. ... “ deathly pity ran through/ at that sight - far the worst I ever suffered/ questioning the passes of the strange sea/ We rowed on / The rocks were now behind Charybdis too / and Scylla dropped astern

D. “But scarcely had that island faded in /blue air than I saw smoke/ and white water with sound of waves on tumult / a sound the men heard, and it terrified them

Answer 1

Answer: B

Step-by-step explanation:

A rhetorial question is a question not in need of an answer, just metioning something to bring light to the answer, or to help one undertsnad more,