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 ...

Judge Ana Reyes peppered the attorneys with rhetorical questions and berated them for what she said was a gross lack of preparedness.

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.