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Rhetorical question   /rɪtˈɔrɪkəl kwˈɛstʃən/   Listen
Rhetorical question

noun
1.
A statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered.





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"Rhetorical question" Quotes from Famous Books



... prince[46]." This is of course far from being the full-blown euphuism of Lyly or Pettie, yet we cannot but agree with Mr Lee, when he declares that "the parallelism of the sentences, the repetition of the same thought differently expressed, the rhetorical question, the accumulation of synonyms, the classical references, are irrefutable witnesses to the presence of euphuism[47]." But Mr Lee appeared to be quite unconscious of the full significance of his discovery. It means that Berners was writing euphuism in 1524, five ...
— John Lyly • John Dover Wilson
... interrogation mark is sometimes used in the body of a sentence, when the writer wishes to make the assertion forceful and uses a rhetorical question for the purpose. ...
— English: Composition and Literature • W. F. (William Franklin) Webster


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