9 Examples of Rhetorical Questions in Anecdotal Text
Rhetorical question sentences are one type of sentence ask in language Indonesia that does not need an answer or response from its listeners. Here is presented example of a rhetorical question in anecdotal text in the form of poetry.
Is it Trash or What?*
Aditya Yuda Kencana's work
Let me know if you see
Is that trash or what?
There's trash on the streets
There's trash in the gutter
In the desk drawer there is trash
There is garbage on buses, trucks and public transportation
Is our country a garbage country?
A sea of trash?
Mountain of trash?
Or the trash can?
In the restaurant chair there is trash
In five-star hotels there is garbage
Even on the director's desk there is trash meja
There is trash at the crossing
Under the security post there is garbage
Is that trash or what?
In the courtroom there is trash
In the hospital waiting room there is trash
On top of the school flower pot there is trash
Garbage is rampant
In the presidential palace is there trash?
That afternoon I tried to get in
And I searched every corner
Evidently!
Trash is under the red and white flagpole and
Behind the entrance to the MPR there is trash
I'm confused, is there trash in the parliamentary seats too?
Let me see!
What? Don't you dare?
Really! Garbage has become the flowers of the archipelago
Everywhere there is trash
Is there garbage in the human mouth?
Check now!
Hurry up!
If not, thank goodness!
Arrogant man! Throwing trash at will!
Don't let our country be the biggest trash can!
Remember that!
The rhetorical question sentences in the anecdote text above are:
- Is that trash or what?
- Is our country a garbage country?
- A sea of trash?
- Mountain of trash?
- Or the trash can?
- In the presidential palace is there trash?
- I'm confused, is there trash in the parliamentary seats too?
- What? Don't you dare?
- Is there garbage in the human mouth?
Thus a brief review of examples of rhetorical question sentences in anecdotal texts. Other articles that can be read and related to sentences and texts include example of interrogative sentence, give an example of an interrogative sentence, example of interrogative sentence, types of interrogative sentences and examples, Mention the kinds of interrogative sentences, examples of types of interrogative sentences, example of anecdote text, short anecdote and its structure, example of short anecdotal text about education, short anecdotal text about nature, short anecdotal text about politics, short anecdotal text about public service, short anecdotal text about economics, and give an example of a satire anecdote text. May be useful. Thank you.
*Quoted from Language Indonesia Self-Expression and Academic for SMA/MAK Class X, Ministry of Education and Culture, 2014