INTERROGATION, EROTESIS, a figure of rhetoric, in which the passion of the speaker introduces a
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thing by way of question, to make its truth more conspicuous.
The interrogation is a kind of apostrophe which the speaker makes to himself; and it must be owned, that this figure is suited to express most passions and emotions of the mind; it serves also to press and bear down an adversary, and generally adds an uncommon briskness, action, force, and variety, to discourse.