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Epigram vs. Epigraph — What's the Difference?

Epigram vs. Epigraph — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Epigram and Epigraph

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Epigram

An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, and sometimes surprising or satirical statement. The word is derived from the Greek ἐπίγραμμα epigramma "inscription" from ἐπιγράφειν epigraphein "to write on, to inscribe", and the literary device has been employed for over two millennia.

Epigraph

An inscription, as on a statue or building.

Epigram

A short, witty poem expressing a single thought or observation.

Epigraph

A motto or quotation, as at the beginning of a literary composition, setting forth a theme.

Epigram

A concise, clever, often paradoxical statement.
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Epigraph

An inscription, especially on a building.

Epigram

Epigrammatic discourse or expression.

Epigraph

A literary quotation placed at the beginning of a book or other text.

Epigram

(obsolete) An inscription in stone.

Epigraph

The set of all points lying on or above the function's graph.

Epigram

A brief but witty saying.

Epigraph

(transitive) To provide (a literary work) with an epigraph.

Epigram

A short, witty or pithy poem.

Epigraph

Any inscription set upon a building; especially, one which has to do with the building itself, its founding or dedication.

Epigram

A short poem treating concisely and pointedly of a single thought or event. The modern epigram is so contrived as to surprise the reader with a witticism or ingenious turn of thought, and is often satirical in character.
Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?

Epigraph

A citation from some author, or a sentence framed for the purpose, placed at the beginning of a work or of its separate divisions; a motto.

Epigram

An effusion of wit; a bright thought tersely and sharply expressed, whether in verse or prose.

Epigraph

A quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing

Epigram

The style of the epigram.
Antithesis, i. e., bilateral stroke, is the soul of epigram in its later and technical signification.

Epigraph

An engraved inscription

Epigram

A witty saying

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