nonrhetorical

More importantly, since weak representationalism does not entail strong, opponents may offer serious nonrhetorical answers to the argument's concluding rhetorical question.

Representational Theories of Consciousness Lycan, William 2006

Help us poke our heads out tonight for some nonrhetorical flourishes?

CNN Transcript Jan 28, 2003 2003

These poets mainly wanted poetry to be nonrhetorical, i.e., they asked for a break with the tradition of Hugo and the Parnassiens.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas REN 1968

The indifference to nonrhetorical poetics appears from the lack of any commentary upon Aristotle's Poetics and from the loss of its second book, dealing with comedy.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas E. N. TIGERSTEDT 1968

In England and America also, in a more strictly literary development, critics have applied the general tenets of rhetorical analysis to many kinds of works that are normally considered to be nonrhetorical.

RHETORIC AFTER PLATO BERNARD WEINBERG 1968

I replied to Carter’s very nonrhetorical question—the former cop would want details: His name’s Henry Loving.

Edge Jeffery Deaver 2010