Aestheticism is the acceptance of artistic beauty and taste as a fundamental standard, ethical and other standards being secondary.
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Ambiguity:
Ambiguity is a word, phrase, or statement that can have more than one meaning or is vague. An ambiguous statement is one in which the reader does cannot fully understand the meaning, whether intentional or not.
Example:
I did stuff the other day.
Ballad:
A ballad is a narrative composition in rhythmic verse suitable for singing.
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Jack and Jill went up a hill to fetch a pail of water...
More detail on the Ballad necessary as the literary ballad is such an important genre of poetry in English literature since the work of the British Romantic poets in the late 18th century and early 19th century (Wordsworth and Coleridge, The Lyrical Ballads".
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