2006-06-21 12:03:57 · 55 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
A rhetorical question is a figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer. ("How many times do I have to tell you to stop walking into the house with mud on your shoes?").
2006-06-21 12:06:41 · update #1
an unanswered question.
2006-06-21 12:06:09 · answer #1 · answered by Dena C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rhetorical
2006-06-21 12:05:28 · answer #2 · answered by rose8879 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rhetorical
2006-06-21 12:04:43 · answer #3 · answered by LadyRebecca 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, since some wise-**** beat me to it, I can't use "conundrum"
But anyway, a "conundrum" is more a paradoxical matter than a question, specifically. A 'koan" is a close relative.
Now, you realize I was prepared to go a LONG way with "conundrum." We had sly tricksters sitting on a drum recruiting stupid fools for a counterfeit King's Shilling ... various and sundry clever references to condoms misspelled ... oh, yeah, good stuff. Derailed by some one-word Johnny with a dictionary.
OK, here it is:
A question without an answer is either a mystery, a puzzle, or a scientific challenge waiting to be resolved. Something like the Grand Unified Theory of everything (Einstein's famous GUT). Ask your math buddies for the still-unresolved theorems driving every Cray computer in the world crazy.
Phooey. I wanted to put in another 20 minutes or so dancing silly right here. Heck, there are MORE questions out there ....
2006-06-21 12:21:26 · answer #4 · answered by Der Lange 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rhetorical.
2006-06-21 12:06:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rhetorical.
2006-06-21 12:04:49 · answer #6 · answered by Nordschleife 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A rhetorical question
2006-06-21 12:06:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well in terms of meditation a question with no answer is called a Kone. It is a question to dwell on while meditating.
Other than that though I don't know sometimes it is a rhetorical question. sometimes it is an unanswerable question but I don't think that there is a special name for such a question.
2006-06-21 12:13:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
rhetorical is a question where an answer is not expected, but every question has an answer in some form or another.
2006-06-21 12:19:10 · answer #9 · answered by jenny 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
rhetorical i guess but i always thought that a rhetorical question was a question with an obvious answer
2006-07-01 01:03:28 · answer #10 · answered by dc 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is called a rhetorical question.
2006-06-21 12:06:44 · answer #11 · answered by amaridy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋