Erotema

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Noun
  1. 1
    The rhetorical use of questions, especially questions which strongly imply their own answer. countable, rhetoric, uncountable

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

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

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