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Aporia

Post by natttt
Posted on 2011-01-21 00:45:37
Aporia is an example of a rhetorical trope. A figure of speech in which the speaker professes to be at a loss what course to pursue, what to say, etc.

This rhetorical ploy can make the audience sympathetic towards the speaker or his dilemma


An example of a poems with Aporia can be found in the work of William Shakespeare

Biblical aporia: "Then the steward said within himself, "What shall I do?" from Luke 16
Aporia is an example of a rhetorical trope.

Soliloquy from Hamlet by William Shakespeare
To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, "tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish"d. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there"s the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come


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