QUAESTIO-SELF-ANSWERED  設問自答法

QUAESTIO put to oneself and answered by oneself immediately afterwards in one's text.

Asking questions and answering them oneself.

Also known as SUBIECTIO. ANTHYPOPHORA

Hypernym
  • QUAESTIOADDRESS in the form of an open question.The posing of open questions without providing or expecting an answer. Compare APORIA, DUBITATIO, HAESITATIO.
    • ADDRESSSPEECH ACT of explicitly addressing an audience.
      • SPEECH ACTRHETORICAL TROPE in the form of a deliberate rhetorico-semantic act performed. [This definition is still a tentative stop-gap, and this category is far larger than I would like. It needs to be intelligently subdivided. CH]
        • RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
Miriam 214

...as Falstaff does his catechism of honor. 'Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? No... Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. What is honour? A word. What is that word honour? Air." 1H4, 5.1.131. See ANTICIPATIO.

REF: Ernesti 24 peculiaris forma dicendi, qua orator sententiam adversarii praeoccupat.

Greek/Latin: Rufinus quoted in Ernesti: anthypophora est figura, qua adversariorum nobis sententias ac dicta proponimus, in hoc tantum, ut illis respondeamus.

Ancient Chinese: Current, but usually less extended. 何以知其然 .

REF: Lausberg 771-775

Greek/Latin: Originally discussed by Teles 3rd cent. B.C. ad Her. 4.23.33. Current.

Ancient Chinese: Ubiquitous.

XICI: 何以守位？曰仁。 "How does one preserve one's position?" "Through humaneness."

Han Yuefu have this kind of question.

Rhetorical device locations: 56