Amphibology or
amphiboly (from the
Greek ampibolia) is, in
logic, a verbal
fallacy arising from ambiguity in the grammatical structure of a sentence. It occurs frequently in poetry, owing to the alteration for metrical reasons of the natural order of words; for example,
Shakespeare,
Henry VI: "The duke yet lives that Henry shall depose." An alternate use of the term exists in reference to a a political party based on fallacy and/or alleged fallacy, such as the
marijuana party[?].