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My specific example is from a passage in Fahrenheit 451 (although I've seen it used colloquially as well):

Click? Pic? Look, Eye, Now, Flick, Here, There, Swift, Pace, Up, Down, In, Out, Why, How, Who, What, Where, Eh? Uh! Bang! Smack! Wallop, Bing, Bong, Boom! Digest-digests, digest-digest-digests. Politics? One column, two sentences, a headline! Then, in mid-air, all vanishes!

Bradbury adds a question mark on "Click" and "Politics" despite neither being a question. It is worth noting the quote is dialogue between two characters.

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    We can only go by what the author wrote. We can't say he didn't mean it. Who says the first two words aren't questions?? The third sentence is just that. All a single utterance. [questions come in many colors]. They can be a single word. See? :) – Lambie Jun 20 '22 at 21:16
  • Obviously, it's questionable. – Hot Licks Jun 20 '22 at 22:28
  • The 50th anniversary edition I found online has slightly different punctuation, oddly. https://jghsenglish.edublogs.org/files/2015/02/Fahrenheit-451.pdf – aparente001 Jun 21 '22 at 01:54
  • It's perfectly possible in informal speech to imply a question by saying a single word in a questioning tone. – Kate Bunting Jun 21 '22 at 07:15
  • This is aiming at a particular literary effect, rather than being a normal feature of language (single-word questions are normal, but I can't imagine anyone saying the full paragraph outside of a literary work) in which case it's better asking about the literary techniques on literature SE. – Stuart F Jun 21 '22 at 08:52
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    Does this answer your question? Verbless sentence (Crots, sentence fragments [here, interrogative sentence fragments]), used as Stuart says for literary effect. I can't see me getting into the work this is extracted from. – Edwin Ashworth Jun 21 '22 at 11:14

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