"erotema" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1939, Peter MacNaughton Miller, The Rhetoric of Sidney's Arcadia, page 206:",
          "text": "Since the simple question, though technically erotema, is scarcely a figure however, I leave it out of the discussion.",
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          "ref": "1977, Joseph A. Leo Lemay, Essays in Early Virginia Literature Honoring Richard Beale Davis, page 173:",
          "text": "Erotema probably occupies more space in Camm's writings than does any other single device.",
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          "ref": "1995, Pynchon Notes - Issues 32-35, page 17:",
          "text": "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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          "ref": "2005, Brett Zimmerman, Edgar Allan Poe: Rhetoric and Style, page 211:",
          "text": "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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        "The rhetorical use of questions, especially questions which strongly imply their own answer."
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          "text": "Since the simple question, though technically erotema, is scarcely a figure however, I leave it out of the discussion.",
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