Aporia. Features of Aporia

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What is aporia? Aporia is a stylistic device in which a

What is aporia?

Aporia is a stylistic device in which a speaker

or a writer expresses uncertainty or doubt—often pretended uncertainty or doubt—about something, usually as a way of proving a point.
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Features of Aporia Aporia is used as a rhetorical device in

Features of Aporia

Aporia is used as a rhetorical device in literature.
It

is also called “dubitation,” which means that the uncertainty is always untruthful.
It could be a question or a statement.
It is often used in philosophy. It relates to philosophical questions and subjects which have no obvious answers.
Plato and Socrates were well-known for using aporia.
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Example #1 An example of aporia is the famous Elizabeth Barrett

Example #1

An example of aporia is the famous Elizabeth Barrett Browning

poem which begins, "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."
Browning's pretense that she might not remember all "the ways" is what gives her an opportunity to enumerate them.
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Example #2: Hamlet (By William Shakespeare) “To be, or not to

Example #2: Hamlet (By William Shakespeare)

“To be, or not to be: that is

the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all…”