What do you do when someone answers your question?
What do you do when someone answers your question?
What should I do when someone answers my question?
- Vote on it (if you have earned the appropriate voting privilege). Vote up answers that are helpful and well-researched, and vote down answers that are not.
- Accept it.
What’s an example of a Hypophora?
Hypophora is a rhetorical device where a speaker or writer states a question and then immediately answers the question. Examples of Hypophora: Should students wear uniforms to school? The answer is yes.
What is an example of Epiplexis?
When, in the Bible, Job asks: ‘Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?’ it’s not a real question. It’s epiplexis.
What’s the best way to answer a question?
Post your question, let others answer it. If no-one puts the answer you already found, then add it an hour or so later. If someone else gets it then accept their answer (or the best one). This is more selfless with reputation, but makes other people do work you have already done which feels a bit lazy and a waste of everyone’s time.
Is it okay to answer your own question on Stack Exchange?
To address the etiquette (as in the title of the question), given that answering your own question is “explicity encouraged” by Stack Exchange… Yes! Stack Exchange has always explicitly encouraged users to answer their own questions.
Who is the etiquette expert on Real Simple?
Send Real Simple’s etiquette expert, Catherine Newman, your social quandaries here or through the form below.
What are the terms for answering your own question?
Apparently a number of terms apply to this tactic. Richard A. Lanham, A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms (1968) offers these: anthypophora: asking questions and answering them. dialogismus: speaking in another man’s person. hypophora: asking questions and answering them. ratiocinatio: a question addressed by the speaker to himself.