rhetorical question
Question, often used by public speakers and debaters, that either does not require an answer or for which the speaker intends to provide his or her own answer (‘Does this government know what it is doing?’). Such a question is used as a striking substitute for a statement.
Rhetorical questions are not confined to public speaking but are part of everyday colloquial speech (‘Do you want a slap on the head?’).
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