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Often times, when you want clarification about something, you'll repeat a word that somebody said as a question.
Like, "Do you know why I'm baking a cake?" "A cake?" "A pound cake. Do you know why I'm baking it?"
That's how I read the second panel the first time, and I was confused.
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That's called an "echo question" in linguistics because you echo the first speaker. It's also an echo question when you insert a question word. – A question what? – A question word like who, what, ...