the poet asks a question without expecting to learn anything from the response, or to pose any difficulty for the reader, the answer being something that the poet already implies and the reader infers. Found on http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_rpo/terminology.cfm#acatalectic
• (a.) Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish. Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/rhetorical/
Rhe·tor'ic·al adjective [ Latin rhetoricus , Greek ............. See Rhetoric .] Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish. « They permit him to leave ... Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/75
adjective of or relating to rhetoric; `accepted two or three verbal and rhetorical changes I suggested`- W.A.White; `the rhetorical sin of the meaningless variation`- Lewis Mumford Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20974