A word for phrase/sentence that sounds like a question but is not?

“Rhetorical questions are questions designed to arouse curiosity without requiring an answer. Either the answer will be obvious, or if it isn’t apparent, the question will arouse curiosity until the presentation provides the answer”

http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/speaking/infomod/pop9b.cfm

@jaytkay Oh, rhetorical questions. Thanks!

What on earth were you thinking?

@YARNLADY I thought of “rhetorical questions” too, but… when I talked to my friend it didn’t come out as a question. I was just telling him. Maybe “bringing up” or “protesting” would suit this occasion more.

“Well, well, well. Is that Jason’s new blog,” I rhetorically questioned a friend.
“Oh, you’re right. That really is his new blog.”

@longtresses, I don’t think that’s ^^^ an instance of a rhetorical question, but even if it were, you wouldn’t label it as such in a piece of writing. In your example, you don’t need to label it at all. We understand this kind of expression as a comment and not a query. You’d just say

“Well, well, well,” I remarked. “Is that Jason’s new blog?”
—We’d understand it the same way as if you wrote, “So that’s Jason’s new blog.”

One kind of rhetorical question would be like this, let’s say in a magazine article: “How do we know when it’s time to say good-bye?” And then the article proceeds to tell us.

Another example is the kind of thing you hear in political speeches and rabble-rousing rhetoric: “Who do they think they are to try to tell us what we can and can’t do? Are we going to let them keep us under their thumbs? or are we going to rise up and show them what freedom means?” Those utterances take the form of a question, but not in order to seek information. The question itself is the statement.

“No….Really?” -sarcasm.

I thought maybe the question meant the speech habit, for want of a better term, of making a statement with the inflection going up at the end so it sounds like there should be a question mark at the end. The person might make the statement, “I had my hair done today.” Only it sounds like, “I had my hair done today?” It seems to go with saying “I go” or “I went”, meaning “I say” or “I said”. I think it maybe was called Valley Girl. Or is that passe? I hear: “And then he goes, “No I didn’t see her,” and I go, “But Sally saw you!” Cuts down on my eavesdropping quickly unless the voice is so loud I can’t shut it out.