POSITIVE EFFECTS OF AMBIGUITY WHEN CREATED BY RHETORICAL DEVICES: TO BE OR NOT TO BE.

The article discusses the use of literary ambiguity as a rhetorical device in literature. The to make making certainties elusive for the reader, and the influence of rhetorical devices on the experiences of the reader. Topics include lexical ambiguity and syntactical ambiguity, ambiguity in the work...

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Published in:	ETC: A Review of General Semantics Vol. 67; no. 4; pp. 452 - 469
Main Author:	MUZZILLO, JEANNE SMITH
Format:	Article
Published:	Institute of General Semantics, Inc. Oct2010
Subjects:	Ambiguity Semantics Fiction writing techniques Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Eponyms Euphemism Metonyms
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