ADIANOETA  雙關隱義法

AMBIGUITAS in which there is one obvious meaning and another hidden intended meaning.

An expression that has an obvious superficial meaning and another unsuspected and underlying secret meaning.

Greek: adianoeeton

Hypernym
  • AMBIGUITASWORD-PLAY which mainly consists in the deliberate artistic and playful display of expressions with several meanings within the given context, often but not always with sustained ambiguity. 雙關法 Sustained ambiguity as a deliberate rhetorical ploy. Greek: amphibolia.
    • WORD-PLAYSPEECH ACT which does not only use words but plays with their form and content.WORD-PLAY
      • SPEECH ACTRHETORICAL TROPE in the form of a deliberate rhetorico-semantic act performed. [This definition is still a tentative stop-gap, and this category is far larger than I would like. It needs to be intelligently subdivided. CH]
        • RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
EX, Lanham: So one says to a good friend who is also a poor novelist: 'I will lose no time in reading your new book.'

Ancient Chinese: Common, but not easily diagnosed. Needs specialised study. Always hard to distinguish from straight AMBIGUITAS

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