NP; Good as Gold: rhetorical questions

[Mike Jing]

Thanks for the reply. The reason why I asked was that there are two ways to
translate the term "rhetorical question" into Chinese and one of them does
not include the case in this passage. I guess that's what people
conventionally mean by rhetorical question, as you have mentioned, which
does not include hypophora. In any case, I thought there was a joke in
there, and also later where Lieberman changed the title of one of Gold's
articles into a long-winded (rhetorical?) question.


On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 6:34 PM <protomen at protonmail.com> wrote:

> It is a question and it is rhetorical, so there's at least a minor joke in
> there, though I don't believe that's what people conventionally mean by
> rhetorical question nowadays. See "hypophora".
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> On Saturday, January 5, 2019 5:39 AM, Mike Jing <
> gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Just to make sure I got this right. In the following passage, Lieberman
> > first says "No more rhetorical questions", then immediately proves
> himself
> > wrong by using a rhetorical question in his own article. Is that correct?
> >
> > Producing from somewhere inside his soiled and rumpled clothing a copy of
> > the next issue of his magazine, he swept open the pages until he at last
> > found the one he wanted, his regular feature boldly headlined “An
> Outspoken
> > Editor Speaks His Mind, by M. G. Lieberman, Editor.” “Listen to what I’ve
> > got coming up,” he cried with excitement and prepared to read. “No more
> > rhetorical questions,” he exclaimed and began, “‘What, then, shall we say
> > to those who argue this may lead us into war? I say, unflinchingly, then
> > let us have war.’ How’s that? I express nothing but opprobrium and scorn
> > for the failure of nerve of all the members of the cowardly Eastern
> liberal
> > establishment. That’s a phrase,” he could not hold himself back from
> > footnoting, “I got from Henry Kissinger.”
> >
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