[rɪˈtɒrɪkl], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- relating to or concerned with the art of rhetoric
(e.g: repetition is a common rhetorical device)

- (of a question) asked in order to produce an effect or to make a statement rather than to elicit information
(e.g: the general intended his question to be purely rhetorical)


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Origin:
late Middle English (first used in the sense ‘eloquently expressed’): via Latin from Greek rhētorikos (from rhētor ‘rhetor’) + -al