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Explain the figure of speech Interrogation/Rhetorical with example.

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Explain the figure of speech Interrogation/Rhetorical with example.

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When a question is asked in order to create a dramatic effect and not to get an answer, in a line of the poem, the Figure of Speech used is called Interrogation/Rhetorical.

For example: What is this life, if full of care? When can their glory fade?

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