A rhetorical question

(of a question) asked in order to produce an effect or to make a statement rather than to elicit information: Examples:

• *the general intended his question to be purely rhetorical
• It might be a rather petulant rhetorical question, or he might just be trying to keep me on the phone.
• Kyle didn't offer him the time to answer the rather rhetorical question.
• It was a statement, a rhetorical question, and just by looking at her he was sure that it had made her angry.*

A rhetorical question

(of a question) asked in order to produce an effect or to make a statement rather than to elicit information: Examples:

• the general intended his question to be purely rhetorical
• It might be a rather petulant rhetorical question, or he might just be trying to keep me on the phone.
• Kyle didn't offer him the time to answer the rather rhetorical question.
• It was a statement, a rhetorical question, and just by looking at her he was sure that it had made her angry.