erotesis

a manner of phrasing a question that presupposes an answer that is either a strong affirmative or, more often, a strong negative.

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Petruchio cagily uses erotesis, defined by Richard A.

Lanham, A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms, 2nd edn (Berkeley, 1991), sv 'erotesis'.

'A Mad-Cap Ruffian and a Swearing Jack': Braggart Courtship from Miles Gloriosus to The Taming of the Shrew

Erotesis y lepsis no son descripciones de las formulas diversas del lenguaje mediante las cuales se expresan los tipos de proposiciones inferenciales dialecticas, sino senalamientos sobre la naturaleza cognitiva diferenciada que la misma clase de [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], la que es [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], tiene para quienes la utilizan en momentos inferenciales diferentes de una misma actividad o proceso dialectico (85).

Aristotle's socratic peirastic/La peirastica socratica de Aristoteles

Though without Eros's companion Peitho, goddess of persuasion, there is no hope of success, since erotaien means to question (erotesis the figure of speech that implies the opposite of what is asked).

From The Sex of the Angel--The Heaven of the Saints: A Breviary, 2001/Das Geschlecht der Engel, Der Himmel der Heiligen: Ein Brevier

Typically, a rhetorical question is asked not to elicit information but to express emotion, as with erotesis (implying strong affirmation or denial) and epiplexis (to chastise).

George, Woody, Gary, and Homer S.: popular culture meets classical rhetoric

EROTESIS (EROTEMA): a rhetorical question implying strong affirmation or denial:

In the following example, note also the foregrounded anaphora and the erotesis with which Stowe ends the passage:

A catalogue of rhetorical and other literary terms from American literature and oratory