Wait a sec. First things first. What are the“修辭性問題”?
用人話說,“修辭性問題”就是“明知故問的問題”。
明明可以用陳述的方式直說,偏要用提問的方式說,成為一種修辭手法。
這就是“修辭性問題”沒錯了。
我們可以在A Carbon Tax Beats a Vacuum Ban(2016年6月亞太地區(qū)考題)這篇文章的開頭幾個段落里找到許多問句,這些問句在被作者提出后又被作者回答了。這些問題就是明知故問嘛。
Those rhetorical questions, apparently more emotional and effective than plain statements, convey the author’s intense sarcasm to the vacuum ban. The author obviously has answers to those questions and, however, deliberately asks questions, and by answering those questions, the author has a channel to deliver his strong opposition to the ban by brief yet strong answers. Meanwhile, the multiple times of using those questions throughout Paragraph 3 and Paragraph 4 increase the intensity of the author’s aversion to the ban. As the intensity is well delivered, through those questions, this wording technique—asking rhetorical questions—has an impact on the readers, enabling them to agree with the author.