Grammar and Rhetoric. Questioning, or a question, as a form of speech.
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| 释义 | society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > rhetorical question (7) interrogation?1533 Grammar and Rhetoric. Questioning, or a question, as a form of speech. erotema1589 = erotesis, n. inquisitive1589 An inquisitive person. (By Puttenham applied to the rhetorical figure erotesis, n.) questioner1589 An interrogative form of speech; = erotema, n. Obsolete. rare. erotesis1656 (See quot. 1845.) rhetorical questiona1686 Designating a question asked only to produce an effect or make a statement, rather than to elicit an answer or information. Chiefly in rhetorical que… Subcategories:— speaker's own answer to (1) |
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