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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
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What do you call

Hi,

I have a question, what do you call this question style:

-Oh boy, am I going to like this so much!

-Did things turn very ugly between me & her!

It sounds like a question but i guess it's more an exclamation. I've heard this style quite few times in American movies & series.

Thanks in advance
  

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Hi, You could call these 'rhetorical questions', but I wouldn't object to simply 'exclamations'. Clive

— Clive

  • Hi, You could call these 'rhetorical questions', but I wouldn't object to simply 'exclamations'.
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Hi,

You could call these 'rhetorical questions', but I wouldn't object to simply 'exclamations'.

Clive
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Thanks clive for your help. I remeber Rhetorical questions from school (some 15 years ago) but they didn't sound like this one. They may be similar in a way that both give you a hint about the answer, however, in the questioned style, the answer shows exiplicitly in the very same line, & doesn't give you a chance to wonder.

One more example I heard: Dont you know me but at all!

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Hi,

I remeber Rhetorical questions from school (some 15 years ago) but they didn't sound like this one. They may be similar in a way that both give you a hint about the answer, however, in the questioned style, the answer shows exiplicitly in the very same line, & doesn't give you a chance to wonder.

A rhetorical question is one for which the speaker expects no answer. He just
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