question-in-the-narrative
- question-in-the-narrative
is asked and answered by one and the same person, usually the author
'For what is left the poet here? // For Greeks a blush - for Greece a tear. (Byron - Don Juan)
- does not contain statement unlike a rhetorical question;
- assume a semi-exclamatory nature;
- is very often used in oratory;
- sometimes gives the impression of an intimate talk between the writer and the reader;
Scrooge knew he was dead? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise? Scrooge and he were partners for I don't know how many years. (Ch.Dickens)
- may also remain unanswered (there are only hints of the possible answers)
How long must it go on? Now long must we suffer? Where is the end? What is the end? (Norris)
- [presumes that the questioner does not know the answer]
See: rhetorical question, syntactical SDs
English-Russian dictionary of stylistics (terminology and examples) .
2014.
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