Question

Which statement best compares the two monologues?

Both Brutus and Antony ask rhetorical questions to make points.
Brutus describes Caesar’s generosity and compassion, while Antony describes his heartless nature.
Both Brutus and Antony describe Caesar’s weakness in battle.
Neither Brutus or An

Answer 1

"Both Brutus and Antony ask rhetorical questions to make points."

Explanation: In the funeral speeches from Julius Caesar both men use rhetorical questions to shape the crowd’s thinking. Brutus asks questions to justify the conspirators’ logic (e.g., “Had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves…?”), while Antony repeatedly asks rhetorical questions to cast doubt on Brutus’s claim of Caesar’s ambition and to provoke sympathy (e.g., “Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?”), using irony and emotional appeals. Options about generosity/heartlessness and battlefield weakness are inaccurate or reversed.