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1 rhetorical\ question
peculiar interrogative construction which semantically remains a statement;- serves to call the attention of listeners;- makes an indispensable part of oratoric speech for they very successfully emphasise the orator's ideas.Source: V.A.K.••a) a special syntactical stylistic device the essence of which consists in reshaping the grammatical meaning of the interrogative sentence;Are these the remedies for a starving and desperate populace?
b) a statement expressed in the form of an interrogative sentence;c) an utterance in the form of a question which pronounces judgement and also expresses various kind of modal shades of meanings, as doubt, challenge, scorn, irony and so on;Who is here so vile that will not love his country? (W.Shakespeare)
- is generally structurally embodied in complex sentences with the subordinate clause containing the pronouncement;- may be looked upon as a transference of grammatical meaningSource: I.R.G.••вопрос, который не предполагает ответа, ставится не для того, чтобы побудить слушателя сообщить нечто неизвестное говорящему, а чтобы привлечь внимание, усилить впечатление, повысить эмоциональный тон, создать приподнятостьBeing your slave, what should I do but tend // Upon the hours and times of your desire? (W.Shakespeare - Sonnet LVII) - Для верных слуг нет ничего другого // Как ожидать у двери госпожу. (пер. С.Я.Маршака)
Source: I.V.A.See: order of words, negative-interrogative sentences, transposition, question-in-the-narrative, syntactical SDsEnglish-Russian dictionary of stylistics (terminology and examples) > rhetorical\ question
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2 bring oneself to
Общая лексика: решиться на (usually in negative or interrogative sentences: 'Still, when Sunday night came, he couldn't bring himself to eat Mr. Claws'')
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