Hypernym

• 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.

Hyponym

• QUAESTIO-RHETORICAQUAESTIO which in fact emphatically affirms its assumed answer. Rhetorical question which is neither concluding nor initial.Traditionally: EROTEMA.
  • QUAESTIO-RHETORICA-A FORTIORI　何況法 A fortiori rhetorical question.
  • QUAESTIO-RHETORICA-CONCLUDING　反詰結論法 Conclusion of a passage in the form of a rhetorical question.
    • QUAESTIO-RHETORICA-CONCLUDING-CONDITIONAL　假設總結反詰法
    • QUAESTIO-RHETORICA-CONCLUDING+AFTERTHOUGHT　段後宗結反詰法
  • QUAESTIO-RHETORICA-CONDITIONAL　假設反詰法 Conditional rhetorical question.
  • QUAESTIO-RHETORICA-DELIBERATIVA　謀事反詰法 Rhetorical question to oneself in the context of deliberations on future action.
  • QUAESTIO-RHETORICA-DISJUNCTIVE=DILEMMA　反詰﹣選擇 Open unanswerable alternative question. Traditionally known as DILEMMA.
  • QUAESTIO-RHETORICA-INITIAL　段前反詰法 A rhetorical question at the beginning of a paragraph.
  • QUAESTIO-RHETORICA-PERCONTATIO　用反詰指責法 Rhetorical questions lined up in order to reprehend.
  • 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.