erotesis🔊

(rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby a question is asked in confident expectation of a negative answer.

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he would sometimes break off in a sudden and spirited Epiphonema, or rather Erotesis, raised a third, and sometimes a full fifth, above the key of the discourse, […]

Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

By Erotesis, what we know we ask, / Prescribing, for effect, a needless task.

Larret Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric

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