Hypophora

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The hypophora is a linguistic design tool .

It represents a question to which the questioner answers himself in the following. This can create a special emphasis.

Examples of the Hypophora are u. a. some Bible passages (the answer to your question is formatted in italics):

“Or is God alone the God of the Jews ? Isn't he also the God of the Gentiles ? Yes, of course, also of the heathen. (...) How? Do we then abolish the law by faith? Far be it! We set up the law . "( Romans 3:29  EU )