Aporia Aporia

Aporia - Definition and Overview

An aporia is a figure of speech that occurs when a speaker expresses doubt about his or her position or asks the audience rhetorically how he or she should proceed.

Examples:

  • What examples could I possibly use?
  • How could I begin to describe the beauty of the desert?

It can also be used as a term to describe an impasse or insoluable contradiction in a text.

Plural is aporiae.

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