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What is a rhetorical question?

What is a rhetorical question? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A question posed only for dramatic or persuasive effect.
  2. (colloquial) A question to which the asker does not expect an answer.
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It was a statement, a rhetorical question, and just by looking at her he was sure that it had made her angry.
Is that a rhetorical question in a time when you can find all information on the web?
In his address, he posed the rhetorical question of what the climate has to do with business.
This isn't a rhetorical question but one that, again, would help show whether they're applying this rule fairly or arbitrarily.
It might be a rather petulant rhetorical question, or he might just be trying to keep me on the phone.
By asking a rhetorical question, my intention was to demonstrate that the process was not influenced by politics.

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