• Mohammad Al Ghafri

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• Amal AL-Lamky

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• Younes Audeh

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This paper highlights the use of Rhetorical Questions that are, normally, asked for emphasis and eliciting more responses. The questioner does not expect or wait for an answer from the listener; on the contrary, he is well aware of the answer and intends to get the attention of the audience addressed mainly. To provide the reader with a rich grasp on the topic at hand, a questionnaire has been distributed among twenty-three male and female Foundation Year Programme students-FY- at the University of Technology and Applied Sciences in the Sultanate of Oman. What the researchers have reached is that Rhetorical Questions are not meant for getting direct answers; they are asked for persuasion, effect and influence. Implications, discussion, suggestions, and recommendations will be pointed out throughout this paper.

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