作为修辞性问句的反问句,应该具有三个特点:(1)说话者(或作者)无疑而问,答案已包含在问句中。(2)语气比陈述句强烈。(3)它只有两种形式:一是以否定的形式表示肯定的意思;一是以肯定的形式表示否定的意思。以上三点,尽管存在不同的具体表述方式,修辞学界所持的看法却并无二致。问题出在具体判别 As a rhetorical question, the rhetorical question should have three characteristics: (1) The speaker (or the author) asks without question, and the answer is already included in the question. (2) The tone is stronger than the declarative sentence. (3) It has only two forms: one is to express affirmative meaning in negative form; the other is to express negation in affirmative form. In the above three points, although there are different specific expressions, the opinions held by rhetoric scholars are no different. The problem lies in the specific discrimination