periodic
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semi-periodic
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Is that a rhetorical question?
prejudicial use of rhetorical devices?
"Rhetorical is a word." would be one, for a start. Individuals engage in the rhetorical process anytime they speak or produce meaning.
A periodic sentence has the main idea at the end of the sentence ("withheld") and a loose one has the main idea of the sentence (subject or predicate or both) at the beginning. A balanced sentence has main ideas at both the beginning and end, often in a compound or complex construction of clauses.
A rhetorical sentence makes a questioning statement that does not expect an answer - it is only expected to make the listener think. An interrogative sentence asks a question that expects, if not requires, an answer from the listener.
The author used various rhetorical devices to persuade the audience of his argument.
His rhetorical abilities meant that he was often sought as a featured speaker. An interrogative remark that does not actually seek an answer is called a rhetorical question.
An interrogative sentence that doesn't need an answer is called a rhetorical question.
Usually. Starting a sentence like that is a rhetorical thing.
Patterns in nature can be seen in the symmetry of a snowflake or in the spirals of a seashell.
A rhetorical question
The professor teaching Communications in the Community started off class asking the rhetorical question, "Should we talk to walls?"