Rhetorical question.Questions to which a writer or speaker does not expect answers are called rhetorical “Isn’t that the worst thing you ever saw This “question” is asked not to nd out what anyone thinks about the thing but to make the point that the speaker or writer believes it to be quite bad. Rhetorical questions area tried-and-true stylistic device, tried so often that they have become somewhat clichéd. Don’t use too many of them, and try not to use them if there is any chance that a negative response will follow and leave you without an audience. See cliché and style. Ridden. See ride. Ride, rode, ridden. An irregular verbin its main, past tense, and past
