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Feigned Ignorance (Q117)

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Arabic rhetorical device where the communicator knows something but pretends not to know, thus expressing amazement, praise, dispraise, disapproval, or to reprimand, or create a sense of familiarity
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Feigned Ignorance
Arabic rhetorical device where the communicator knows something but pretends not to know, thus expressing amazement, praise, dispraise, disapproval, or to reprimand, or create a sense of familiarity

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