Rhetorical devices

Rhetorical questions

Hannah Fearn uses many rhetorical questions in her article “The ‘new normal’ for Britain? Poverty and destitution”. At the beginning of the article, Fearn shares statistics on child poverty and  considers why the targets for reducing child poverty were dropped:

But in 2016, child poverty reduction targets set out in the Child Poverty Act of 2010 – and the government’s duty to meet them – were scrapped. N...