What is rhetorical questions?
In passage B,
line 51...Why go suddenly..?
Is this rhetorical question?
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Re: Q23
Yeah, a rhetorical question means that an author asks a question without providing an answer (to provoke thought, or to provoke what feels like the obvious answer in people's minds).
If I was arguing against an estate tax, I might say:
When someone dies, they should be able to pass on their estate as they see fit to whom they see fit. An estate tax takes a slice of that estate and claims it for the government. But usually, the money in someone's estate was earned income that has already been taxed when it was first received. Why should an estate tax allow the government to tax the same income twice?
The rhetorical question at the end is supposed to make the reader think, "Huh. The govt. shouldn't be able to do that!"
The rhetorical question in 50-53, similarly, is meant to provoke the response of, "Huh. That's dumb. Why go from on extreme to another? Why not a middle ground?"
If I was arguing against an estate tax, I might say:
When someone dies, they should be able to pass on their estate as they see fit to whom they see fit. An estate tax takes a slice of that estate and claims it for the government. But usually, the money in someone's estate was earned income that has already been taxed when it was first received. Why should an estate tax allow the government to tax the same income twice?
The rhetorical question at the end is supposed to make the reader think, "Huh. The govt. shouldn't be able to do that!"
The rhetorical question in 50-53, similarly, is meant to provoke the response of, "Huh. That's dumb. Why go from on extreme to another? Why not a middle ground?"
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