Erotema

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

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

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

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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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