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2011年1月14日 · Yes, these two questions can have answers (all questions do, rhetorical or not), but what decides if the other person should give an answer or not (the point about anticipating or requring one) is how the asker asks the question. In a rhetorical question, there is the assumption that both the asker and the addressee know the answer and both ...
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2009年1月12日 · It is interesting that Japanese lyrics use a lot of rhetorical questions, metaphor, simile and parallelism, though. An example of Japanese lyrics using rhetorical question can be found in the last 2 lines of the 4th stanza of this song.
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2017年2月8日 · Hi akuptsov.hse, if we accept the Longman definition of a rhetorical question: "a question that you ask as a way of making a statement, without expecting an answer", then I don't agree at all that tag questions are rhetorical. In fact, by adding a tag, the speaker invites a response. Rhetorical questions: What's in a name?
Tag question - ..., yes? ..., no? ..., right? ..., OK?
2005年8月3日 · Rhetorical (adj.) 4. Designating a question asked only to produce an effect or make a statement, rather than to elicit an answer or information. Chiefly in rhetorical question. 1958 J. Osborne & A. Creighton Epitaph of G Dillon (1960) 203 Barney. I take it you are interested in money? George. Is that a rhetorical question?
Does a rhetorical question require a question mark?
2007年4月23日 · After all a rhetorical question isn't more than a question not expecting an answer, made for rhetorical effect, ie. probably in some quasi-dramatic context. It sounds to me, Confused, as though your girl harbours particularly proprietorial feelings for that camera, and reacted in a way she instantly regretted.
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2019年1月5日 · But just because the question is posed as part of a rhetorical style doesn't mean the question itself is a "rhetorical question" in the strict sense of the term. As Fowler puts it, a rhetorical question is "put not to elicit information but as a more striking substitute for a statement. The assumption is that only one answer is possible, and ...
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2011年10月1日 · I don't know if there is a single term that captures all rhetorical questions, but in Quranic exegetis, there are the terms استفهام تقريري (question as statement) and استفهام إنكاري (question as admonishment). Examples: استفهام تقريري: أليس الله بأحكم الحاكمين؟
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2011年10月1日 · Interesting question QP SaaHib! The current / official term is supposed to be خَطِیبانَہ سوال = rhetorical question. میں اس اصطلاح سے كلی طور پر مطمئن نہیں ہوں! شاید اس سے بہتر كچھ نہ ہو اور قیاسی سوال = conjectural question - not the same as a rhetorical question.
have you lost your mind? vs. are you lost your mind?
2013年10月2日 · Hi there, I would like to know if the meaning of these 2 questions is the same "have you lost your mind? vs. are you lost your mind?".
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2014年3月20日 · regardless of whether 'It is a hot day?' is a real question or a rhetorical question. The second school of thought is that the punctuation should be according to the function of the sentence, and possibly intonation, in which case you would write, 'Is it a hot day!' if you have a rhetorical question.