Meaning of erotema | Babel Free

Definitions

The rhetorical use of questions, especially questions which strongly imply their own answer.

countable, rhetoric, uncountable

Examples

“Since the simple question⟳, though technically erotema, is scarcely a figure⟳ however, I leave⟳ it out of the discussion.”

“Erotema probably occupies more space in Camm's writings than does any other single device.”

“Here erotema is fused with the logical fallacy begging the question⟳: for example , "Shall we let⟳ her pull⟳ the wool over our eyes?"”

“The narrator's use⟳ of erotema would seem to be a frantic rhetorical attempt⟳ to encourage⟳ acceptance in his audience of the theory of perversity . Through erotema he is asking his auditors to think⟳ deductively (to move⟳ from the general to the specific) by saying something like⟳ this: "Look⟳, everyone has succumbed to perverse impulse now and then, right?— so you'll believe⟳ me when I tell⟳ you that perversity overcame me too, on the occasion when I hanged my poor cat."”

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