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Contraposition Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary
When was the last time...?
What is the rhetorical effect of the 'When was the last time ... ?' structure?
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It's that the person asking such a question doesn't expect the answer to it. '
- It's that the person asking such a question doesn't expect the answer to it.
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It's that the person asking such a question doesn't expect the answer to it. They expect the listener to accept tacitly the statement following the 'When was the last time...'
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AnonymousIt's that the person asking such a question doesn't expect the answer to it. They expect the listener to accept tacitly the statement following the 'When was the last time...'Not exactly. It's that they expect an implicit answer ot 'never' or 'a very long time ago'. Thus, for example, the question 'when was the last time you heard a politician give a
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