Answer
Answer noun - Something spoken or written in reaction especially to a question.
Rhetorical question and answer are semantically related. in reply topic. In some cases you can use "Rhetorical question" instead a noun "Answer".
Rhetorical question
Rhetorical question noun - A statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered.
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Synonyms for Rhetorical question
Answer and rhetorical question are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Answer" instead a noun phrase "Rhetorical question".
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Related pairs
- response and answer
- response and rhetorical question
- remark and answer
- remark and rhetorical question
- report and answer
- report and rhetorical question
- return and answer
- return and rhetorical question
- result and answer
- result and rhetorical question
- resolution and answer
- resolution and rhetorical question
- explanation and answer
- explanation and rhetorical question
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After Freeza kills Dende in Dragon Ball Z Abridged, he justifies killing children by giving a rhetorical question, Goku being the scholarly gentleman he is gives him a rhetorical answer.
Source: Rhetorical Question Blunder - A Rhetorical Question Blunder is what happens when a character asks a question that they didn't need an answer to... and then gets an answer anyway.
Source: Rhetorical Question Blunder - A rhetorical question used in place of "yes" when "yes" is the obvious answer to a given question.
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