Interrogatio

Pronunciation: in-ter-ro-ga'-ti-o

Alternate Spelling: L. “question, cross-examination”

Definition

Primarily, interrogatio is simply the Latin term for erotema (the rhetorical question). In the Ad Herennium, however, interrogatio is described as employing a question as a way of confirming or reinforcing the argument one has just made.

Examples

While, therefore, you were doing and saying and negotiating all of these things, were you not alienating the republic's allies?

Rhetorical Questions