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Antithesis Hamlet’s soliloquy in “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare is a good
example of aporia.
Antithesis involves the introduction of opposites in the same
sentence to give a contrasting effect. “To be, or not to be: that is the question.
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer
Examples: The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
“Never give in – never, never, never, in nothing great of small, large And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good Than fly to others that we know not of?
sense”. (Winston Churchill) Thus conscious does make cowards of us all . . .”

Many are called, but few are chosen.

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as Aposiopesis
fools”. (Martin Luthor King, Jr. 1964)
Aposiopesis is a rhetorical device in which a sentence is deliberately
“To err is human; to forgive divine”. (“An Essay on Criticism” by left unfinished. The sentence usually ends in an ellipsis as in the
Alexander Pope) first and last examples given below.

Snow White and the Wiked Witch. (Snow White) If I get hold of you I’ll . . . !

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice”. (“Hamlet” by William His behaviour was – well I would rather not go there.
Shakespeare
King Lear: I shall have revenges on you both
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”. (Neil That all the world shall – I will do such things –
Armstrong) What they are yet, I know not, but they shall be
The terrors of the earth!
“Patience is bitter, but it has a sweet fruit”. (Aristotle)
(“King Lear” by William Shakespeare)
“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge
without integrity is dangerous and dreadful”. (Samuel Johnson) “If you lay a hand on her I’ll . . . !”

Aporia

Aporia is used as a rhetorical device in which the speaker Appositive
expresses some doubt, often simulated, about his or her position
and asks the audience how to proceed. An appositive is a grammatical or rhetorical device in which a noun
phrase, a noun, or series of nouns is placed beside a noun about
Examples: which it is giving additional information.