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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