Citations:percontatio


 * 1993, Malcolm Beckwith Parkes, Pause and Effect: An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West (University of California Press, ISBN 0520079418, “Select Glossary of Technical Terms and Punctuation Symbols”, page 306
 * percontatio A question employed not to elicit information, but instead of a positive statement for purposes of rhetorical effect (see plates 34 and 35).