erotema
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The rhetorical use of questions, especially questions which strongly imply their own answer.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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.""