A question that is asked to make a point rather than to get an answer. If you’ve ever been home late, you might have been met with this rhetorical question: "What time do you call this?” The person ...

Simply sign up to the Work & Careers myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Everyone knows about rhetorical questions, don’t they? Don’t answer that. This figure of speech – a question that ...

Just asking questions doesn't make you Socrates. - Hoca Camide Persuasion is a science and an art. The science asks us to use sound arguments and good evidence to make a point. The art offers us wide ...

Whether we're speaking to one person or to a group, we have the power to be persuasive— if our arguments are strong and if we use tactics for persuasion such as the following. Because this is ...