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Rhetorical questions get your reader/audience thinking. They make you question what you really think about a subject and start sowing seeds of an alternative viewpoint. "How do you expect to achieve success if you don't work for it?" "What if we try a different approach?" Try using a rhetorical question in a title for an article to get your reader to question what they really think and begin to persuade them round to a different point of view from the get-go.
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Click here to view my profile and arrange a free introduction.A question that is asked to make a point rather than to receive an answer.
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Hi Juwan,
A rhetorical question is a question that the person asking already knows the answer to. Often these questions are posed not with the goal of getting an answer, but with emphasising a point or drawing a listener/reader along down the path of logic the questioner wants. For example: "If your friends all jumped off a bridge, would you too?"
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Click here to view my profile and arrange a free introduction.Rhetorical questions are questions that do not require an answer, for example; 'what time do you call this?'. The person speaking is not actually wanting a response of the time, the intention is to vocalise how they think the person they are talking to, is late. It requires the other person to infer this information and not take the question literally. They are usually used in writing for dramatic effect and provoke thought.
A rhetorical question is when someone asks a question that isn't meant to be answered. For example if you arrive home late your mum might say, "what time do you call this?" she doesn't actually want you to tell her the time, she's making a point about you getting home late. Usually rhetorical questions are used to make someone think or to emphasise a point.
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A rhetorical question is a question that requires no answer. They are often used as a persuasive technique, for example in advertising campaigns and political speeches.
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Click here to view my profile and arrange a free introduction.This is a question that doesn't require an answer - used as a persuasive device in speeches and other texts. eg. Who wants another year of covid restrictions?
Questions that do not require an answer. They are often used as a persuasive technique.
Rhetorical questions are questions where an answer is not expected, the question is being asked for effect or to make a certain point. For example, "What's not to like?" Is a rhetorical question as it is used to make a point, it's not meant to be answered.
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Rhetorical questions are questions where the main purpose isn’t to elicit an actual response in physical form. Instead, rhetorical questions are used to create emphasis of an already existing point (for example in persuasive writing, where we already know the opinion of the writer) or to invite or inspire speculation in the reader or the audience.
Some examples:
Spitting is a nasty habit. But I don’t really need to tell you that, do I?
Where would we be today if mobile phones didn’t exist?
Isn’t sunshine just so amazing!?
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Rhetorical questions are questions that are not intended to have an answer, the speaker uses them to introduce a topic into the conversation or text.
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Click here to view my profile and arrange a free introduction.A rhetorical question is conducted in a manor that creates dramatic effect without out any real substance, rather than going straight to the point!
rhetorical questions are the questions that you dont really wait for the other person do answer because you already know the answer or there is not an answer. for example -is rain wet?
The rhetorical question is a such kinda of question that isn't supposed to be answer at all
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A rhetorical question is one that requires no response. More often than not, it involves sarcasm. Common examples would be 'Are you serious?' or 'Do you really think I am that stupid'?
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