Ambiguity: The quality of being open to multiple interpretations, without a single definitive meaning.
How to apply it: Analyze how ambiguity at the end of a narrative invites the reader to construct meaning and resists simple resolution.
Course: AP English Literature · Unit: Short Fiction III
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