QUAESTIO-RHETORICA-TEXT-INTERNAL  

反詰﹣章內 Rhetorical question as part of direct speech within a narrative text, i.e. not directed at the reader.

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.
    • 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.
LY's "The Master said" are not considered to provide such a narrrative context in TLS. They count as QUAESTIO-RHETORICA-LECTORI.

NB: I've noticed this form too late to insure that all rhetorical questions are subclassified

Rhetorical device locations: 2
  • 莊子 而獨不見之調調，之刁刁乎？」
  • 莊子 怒者其誰邪！」