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rhetorical question
[ ri-tawr-i-kuhl kwes-chuhn, -tor- ]
noun
- a question asked solely to produce an effect or to make an assertion of affirmation or denial and not to elicit a reply, as 鈥淗as there ever been a more perfect day for a picnic?鈥 or 鈥淎re you out of your mind?鈥
rhetorical question
noun
- a question to which no answer is required: used esp for dramatic effect. An example is Who knows? (with the implication Nobody knows )
rhetorical question
- A question posed without expectation of an answer but merely as a way of making a point: 鈥淵ou don't expect me to go along with that crazy scheme, do you?鈥
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of rhetorical question1
Idioms and Phrases
A question asked without expecting an answer but for the sake of emphasis or effect. The expected answer is usually 鈥測es鈥 or 鈥渘o.鈥 For example, Can we improve the quality of our work? That's a rhetorical question . [Late 1800s]Example Sentences
Obviously, it was a rhetorical question as Salda帽a鈥檚 triumphs have continued unabated.
Exhausted and exasperated, the quarterback had a rhetorical question for the cluster: 鈥淐an鈥檛 you let a guy sulk in peace?鈥
There was the virality of it all, of course: 鈥淣asty鈥 birthed memes to match your freak, a new rhetorical question 鈥 mantra, really 鈥 for a generation of people daring someone to meet them at their level.
It was a rhetorical question designed to impress on them his urgency and his demand that part of their job would be walking the streets with him.
It鈥檚 not a rhetorical question, but one with an answer: when that judge is someone he picked himself.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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