rhetorical question

That sounds like a rhetorical question, but I mean it quite literally as a question.

Instead, Burkman asked a rhetorical question, “Do I want to enter a business of prescribing what is indecent?”

He then posed a rhetorical question that has become a rallying cry of the NRA.

Carlisle perceived a rhetorical question, though she didn't know it under that name; she made no reply.

It is a rhetorical question purely, but she does not want to play.

Hush, Charles; it's a rhetorical question; he wants to answer it himself.

He emitted a tremulous sigh before answering his own rhetorical question.

For a moment he was pulled up, when to his rhetorical question, "What has Home Rule meant to us?"