Rhetorical question
— 1) an emphatic affirmation in the
form of a question (O, wind, / If winter comes, can Spring be far
behind?
[
Shelley
]);
2) a question put to oneself by a character / narrator and
answered in some way (To be or not to be?… [
Shakespeare
])
2.4.4. Figures entailing syntactical deficiency
Ellipsis
— omission of one or both principal parts of the
sentence (subject, predicate or part of a predicate). It is
characteristic of colloquial speech and serves to render a person’s
idiolect or their attitude to something, etc.
e.g. Where is he? — Out in the garden.
e.g. Police sure he did it, eh? [
Christie
].
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