0 a question, asked in order to make a statement, that does not expect an answer: --
"Why do these things always happen to me?" is a rhetorical question.
1 a statement made in the form of a question with no expectation of an answer --
I suppose that that is a rhetorical question: we all know the answer.
I will try to answer that rhetorical question.
I am not asking for this information—this is a rhetorical question.
I ask the rhetorical question, is it not also plain common sense that that should be necessary?
I suspect that that is something of a rhetorical question.
That was a good rhetorical question, but it is not quite so good if we look carefully into it.
I am left with no choice but to treat it as a rhetorical question.
We will have to treat that as a rhetorical question.
