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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



... course it is an experiment! But it is made in corpore vili. It is not irreparable, and there is no reason, more's the pity, why I should not please myself. I will ask—it is a rhetorical question which needs no answer—what is a hapless bachelor to do, who is professionally occupied and tied down in a certain place for just half the year? What is he to do with the other half? I cannot live on in my college rooms, and I am not compelled ...
— At Large • Arthur Christopher Benson


Words linked to "Rhetorical question" :   statement


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