A rhetorical question is a question asked to make a point, rather than get an answer. If you have ever been late, someone might say: 'What time do you call this?' This person doesn't want an answer to ...

Mr. Gradgrind is the alter ego of Paul Brians, professor of English at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, who sets out to provide specific, concrete answers to life's rhetorical ...

Just asking questions doesn't make you Socrates. - Hoca Camide Persuasion is a science and an art. The science asks us to use sound arguments and good evidence to make a point. The art offers us wide ...

Rhetorical questions in medical encounters functioned to mitigate doctors' use of structural power, such as their necessary abrogation of patients' right to control over the viewing and touching of ...

Simply sign up to the Work & Careers myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Everyone knows about rhetorical questions, don’t they? Don’t answer that. This figure of speech – a question that ...

A chara, – Brian Cullen (April 13th) continues the worthy discussion of rhetorical questions in the letters page. However, I notice that he terminates his own one with a question mark. I was taught by ...

In 2018, I posed a list of rhetorical questions for law firm leaders to consider in the coming year. I hope most leadership teams have addressed those questions because, as the business model evolves ...

President Obama’s presidency has been fraught with controversy and conflict over many issues, from his Affordable Care Act to his foreign policy on Syria, but none more so than immigration. His ...