THE APPLICATION OF RHETORICALQUESTION TO SURAT AL-ZUMAR

Abstract


Languages have different means of communication, some of which are verbal and nonverbal. For the sake of expressing, stating, asking, emphasizing certain types of information , we sometimes tend to use some of these verbal or nonverbal means either directly or indirectly. Therefore, scholars and rhetoricians have studied most of these means and the properties that can affect speakers to select a highly effective discourse in order to get a successful understanding of meaning in its literal sense as well as to choose the correct lexis to unambiguously comprehend the intended meaning. They also tackle the ways of getting a persuasive discourse by using different expressions, some of which are syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, poetic, etc. One of these expressions is Rhetorical Question (henceforth RQ).