Content: Introduction The Impact of lingua-cultural rhetorical questions on dialogues general-rhetorical questions 2 Examples of rhetorical questions 15 Benefit

2.1 Examples of rhetorical questions

Rhetorical questions with obvious answers are asked about wellknown facts, or the answer is suggested based on the question's context. They are used to emphasises an idea or point:

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  Are you kidding me?
  
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  Can birds fly?
  
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  Is the Pope catholic?
  
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  Who knows?
  

Rhetorical questions which have no answers:

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  Who cares?
  
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  What's the meaning of life?
  
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  How many times do I have to tell you not to...?
  
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  Why me?
  

Look, I have found some interesting facts about rhetorical questions aboit my favorite politicians and, surely, wanted to add it to my coursework.

President Obama's immigration address

Ever since the 5th century BC, orators have put their points across by asking rhetorical questions whose implied answers clearly support their point. This rhetorical passage comes from Obama’s immigration speech:

"Are we a nation that tolerates the hypocrisy of a system where workers who pick our fruit and make our beds never have a chance to get right with the law? Are we a nation that accepts the cruelty of ripping children from their parents' arms? Or are we a nation that values families, and works to keep them together?"