Ambiguity and Aphorism Ambiguity The multiple meanings either intentional or unintentional of a word phrase sentence or passage Examples unintentional Examples INTENTIONAL OR purposeful ID: 165394
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Rhetorical Devices:
Ambiguity and AphorismSlide2
Ambiguity
“The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence or passage”Slide3
Examples
(
unintentional
)Slide4
Examples
(INTENTIONAL, OR purposeful
)
Ambiguity is used purposely in many art forms such as cinema and poetry. It allows the audience to create their own perceptions of a movie ending, or other plot points or the meaning of a poem.
Movies with ambiguous endings: Space Odyssey (2001), American Psycho (2000), Blade Runner (1982), Inception (2010), The Prisoners (2013)Slide5
Examples (Intentional, or purposeful)
Poem with ambiguity:
“O Rose thou art sick.
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night
In the howling storm:
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy;
And his
dark secret love
Does thy life destroy”
By William BlakeSlide6
Aphorism
“A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle. (If the authorship is unknown, the statement is generally considered to be a folk proverb.) An aphorism can be a memorable summation of the author’s point.”
In other words, it’s a “terse
saying embodying a general truth, or astute
observation.”Slide7
Examples
“
Do. or do not. There is no try
.”
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“A penny saved is a penny earned”
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away”