[*] 2640. Rhetorical Questions are questions asked for effect and not for information, since the speaker knows the answer in advance and either does not wait for, or himself gives, the answer. Thus, ἀλλ᾽ οὐκ ἔστι ταῦτα: πόθεν; but this is not so. How can it be? D. 18.47, ““τί οὖν αἴτιον εἶναι ὑπολαμβάνω; ἐγὼ ὑ_μῖν ἐρῶ” what then do I regard as the explanation? I will tell you” P. A. 40b. Such questions are often introduced by μή (2651 b). Other examples 2638 a, 2641. a. Rhetorical questions awaken attention and express various shades of emotion; and are often used in passing to a new subject. Such questions are very rare in Lysias, somewhat frequent in Plato, common in Isaeus, highly developed in Demosthenes. The rhetorical question is much more favoured in Greek than in English.
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[*] 2640. Rhetorical Questions are questions asked for effect and not for information, since the speaker knows the answer in advance and either does not wait for, or himself gives, the answer. Thus, ἀλλ᾽ οὐκ ἔστι ταῦτα: πόθεν; but this is not so. How can it be? D. 18.47, ““τί οὖν αἴτιον εἶναι ὑπολαμβάνω; ἐγὼ ὑ_μῖν ἐρῶ” what then do I regard as the explanation? I will tell you” P. A. 40b. Such questions are often introduced by μή (2651 b). Other examples 2638 a, 2641. a. Rhetorical questions awaken attention and express various shades of emotion; and are often used in passing to a new subject. Such questions are very rare in Lysias, somewhat frequent in Plato, common in Isaeus, highly developed in Demosthenes. The rhetorical question is much more favoured in Greek than in English.
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