[New-Poetry] Anyone know this?

[Rsgwynn1 at cs.com]

In a message dated 5/4/2007 3:51:08 PM Central Daylight Time, 
anny.ballardini at tin.it writes: 
> funny that they do not mention refutatio here:
>   
>  http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/silva.htm
>  http://www.americanrhetoric.com/rhetoricaldevicesinsound.htm
>   
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_of_speech
> 
It's not a figure (scheme or trope) but part of the speech/discourse.  In a 
debate, of course, the objections would be voiced by the other side and 
answered, but in a discourse the unvoiced objections are addressed.

There is, as far as I know, no figure for this, for figures have to do with 
matters like syntax, repetition, omission, and various forms of metaphor.  A 
rhetorical question comes closest:  "Why am I wasting your time when it's clear 
that you don't want to buy Product X?  Well, I'll tell you . . . ."

Some of these seem to fit the bill, or various bills:

http://rhetoric.byu.edu/Figures/Groupings/of%20Refutation.htm   
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