T-Rex: Do you sometimes wonder if there's a literary technique for raising a question only to immediately answer it? I sometimes wonder if there's a literary technique for raising a question only to immediately answer it.
Narrator: LITERARY TECHNIQUE COMICS
Narrator: today's technique:
Narrator: anthypophora
T-Rex: Anyway, when you do it that's called "anthypophora".
T-Rex: Done!
Utahraptor: That's really all there is to it?
T-Rex: That's really all there is to it!
T-Rex: Of course, what WE just said doesn't count, because YOU asked a question and *I* answered it. THAT would be some kind of hypothetical "group anthypophora" which is, at present, beyond the reach of even the maddest literary theorists.
Utahraptor: Beyond the calm ones too, even.
T-Rex: A handy way to remember this technique is simply to memorize the phrase "do I know what anthypophora is? Yes."
T-Rex: Well bye!!
