Rhetorical Question Definition

noun
A question asked only for effect, as to emphasize a point, no answer being expected.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Rhetorical Question

Noun

Singular:
rhetorical question
Plural:
rhetorical-questions

Rhetorical Question Sentence Examples

  • It was a rhetorical question and, to those posing it, simply a wish—just another way to say, "Why can't we all just get along?"

  • I am not posing a naïve, rhetorical question.

  • Instead of asking the rhetorical question why do they hang about there?

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