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Definition of Rhetorical question
1. Noun. A statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered. "He liked to make his points with rhetorical questions"
Definition of Rhetorical question
1. Noun. A question posed only for dramatic or persuasive effect. ¹
2. Noun. (colloquial) A question to which the asker does not expect an answer. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhetorical Question
Literary usage of Rhetorical question
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Effective English: Junior by Philander Priestley Claxton, James McGinniss (1921)
"The rhetorical question. — A statement may often be made more effectively ...
This is called a rhetorical question. The sentence above beginning Is life so ..."
2. Effective English: Junior by Philander Priestley Claxton, James McGinniss (1921)
"The rhetorical question. — A statement may often be made more effectively ...
This is called a rhetorical question. The sentence above beginning Is life so ..."
3. The Art of Debate by Warren Choate Shaw (1922)
"A rhetorical question, therefore, is in effect a very powerful declaration put
in the form ... The rhetorical question is a very clever persuasive device; ..."
4. The Art of Debate by Warren Choate Shaw (1922)
"A rhetorical question, therefore, is in effect a very powerful declaration put
in the form ... The rhetorical question is a very clever persuasive device; ..."
5. A Modern Composition and Rhetoric (complete Course) Containing the by Lewis Worthington Smith, James Eames Thomas (1901)
"The Exclamation and rhetorical question. — Occasionally a statement can be made
more effective by putting it in the form of an exclamation or question. ..."
6. First Steps in Latin: A Complete Course in Latin for One Year : Based on by Robert Fowler Leighton (1885)
"A rhetorical question does not expect an answer, but, under the guise of a ...
This is a rhetorical question, expecting no answer, but conveying the idea ..."
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