Hypernym

• QUAESTIO-RHETORICAQUAESTIO which in fact emphatically affirms its assumed answer. Rhetorical question which is neither concluding nor initial.Traditionally: EROTEMA.
• 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.
        • RHETORICAL DEVICE詞格　METHOD of adorning discourse.
• AFFIRMATIOSPEECH ACT of not only mentioning but affirming a sentence, i.e. making a statement which involves a truth-claim. 　　
  • 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.
      • RHETORICAL DEVICE詞格　METHOD of adorning discourse.