Question

Fill in the blank with an appropriate option:
The question "O Death! where is thy sting?" can best be described as ________.

• A. harshly rhetorical
• B. dubiously questioning
• C. gently taunting
• D. gravely earnest
• E. paradoxical

Answer 1

The correct option is C gently taunting

The poem, “The Dying Christian to His Soul” puts light on the speaker at the time of his death. In the last stanza, the speaker seems happy as he is going to heaven. The poet seems to be taunting death as death can only take his body and not his soul. Thus option C is the correct answer. Options A,B,D,E are incorrect.