What is the point of rhetorical questions?!
Question: good one mate!
Answers: good one mate!
==> Is this a rhetorical question?
to mess with your head LOL
Who knows?
I have no clue
I like to see my name in print.
They are used to make a point.
To leave people thinking
There isn't one. It's sarcastic, smart-****. My classmates do it to my teachers all the time and it gives them nervous twitches...that's really the only point lol.
to ask question people are to afraid to ask for real or to get a feel for the response they might receive
I believe the point of rhetorical questions is so the person asking them can make the rhetorically questioned person look and feel like a damn fool.
To encourage a rarity these days...thought!
Who cares?
To confuse the listener into thinking they have a chance to respond, and you wouldn't want that to happen, now would you? Of course you wouldn't........
to make u think
I would say that the point is to belittle or humilate the questioned person.
I'm not sure but i use them a lot. I think it might be more to get your point across than anything else. Why do you wanna know by the way, do you find them irritating as i know some rhetorical questions can be misconstrued and you answer them anyway,
How am I supposed to know it?
its a figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than to receive an answer. Rhetorical questions encourage the listener to reflect on what the implied answer to the question must be.
did i answer your question?
To be right.
And to see if the other person is willing to question your judgement.
Could be a side effect of sarcasm.
On Yahoo Answers, a rhetorical question provides an opportunity for others to post meaningless answers, collect 2 points and, maybe add a 'star' to your question .... not that people do that, naturally.
Here's a thought: Is a question rhetorical if the reader doesn't realise it was meant to be?
Another thought (I'm on a roll today): What would you call a question that is not rhetorical but to which the answer cannot possibly matter to anybody .... the 'what is your favourite colour?', 'what did you eat for lunch?'... type of thing? And why do such questions attract loads of stars???? (Yes, that's rhetorical).