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Ambiguity
The possibility of more than one interpretation of a spoken or written expression.
Ambiguity is used as a device in poetry when the writer wants to stimulate the reader's imagination and allow them to come to a personal view of what the poem means to them.
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alliteration
ambiguity
anachronism
analogy
anecdote
anthropomorphism
anticlimax
antithesis
antonym
assonance
bathos
black humour
climax
comic relief
conceit
connotation
couplet
device
double entendre
emotive language
euphemism
figure of speech
grotesque (literature)
half-rhyme
hyperbole
imagery
irony
lampoon
literary criticism
metaphor
metonymy
onomatopoeia
oxymoron
parody
pastiche
personification
pun
rhetoric
rhyme
rhythm (poetry)
satire
simile (language)
symbol (general)
synecdoche
synonymy
synthesis (literature)
tautology
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