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Exercise: Rhetorical Questions
Can you think of circumstances in which the following might be asked as a genuine question? Can you think of circumstances where the question is asked rhetorically? f it is a rhetorical question, what might it be designed to get the person to think about?
- Do you really want that third cookie?
- Have you been listening to what I have been saying?
- Aren’t you tired yet?
- Did I say that you could go out tonight?
- Aren’t you cold?
Are there questions that can only be asked rhetorically?