EROTESIS, a figure of rhetoric, in which the passion of the speaker introduces a 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.

in grammar, is a point which serves to distinguish such parts of a discourse, where the author speaks as if he were asking questions. Its form is this (?).