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 ...

Rhetoric, the discipline of argumentation, is concerned not only with the message but with the determination of the most effective persuasive methods of presentation and frequently incorporates the ...

Whether or not Author McConaughy meant to answer his own rhetorical question, his indignant replies have gone far enough to show that there is more than one way of looking at U. S. history.