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An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, sometimes surprising or satirical statement. The word derives from the Greek ...
Epigram, a brief, interesting, memorable, and sometimes surprising or satirical statement; Incipit, the first few words of a text, employed as an identifying label; Flavor text, applied to games and toys; Prologue, an opening to a story that establishes context and may give background
A version of this appears in the Prologue to "The Cook's Tale" (written in 1390) by Geoffrey Chaucer: "Ful ofte in game a sooth I have herd saye!".[2]An early print appearance of the most familiar form of this aphorism was in Volume VII of the Roxburghe Ballads, where it appears in the prologue to The Merry Man's Resolution, or A London Frollick.
An epigram is a short poem with a clever twist, or a concise and witty statement. Epigram may also refer to: Epigram (programming language), a functional programming language with dependent types; Epigram, the independent student newspaper of the University of Bristol; Epigram (horse), Canadian racehorse
A feuilleton (French pronunciation:; a diminutive of French: feuillet, the leaf of a book) was originally a kind of supplement attached to the political portion of French newspapers, consisting chiefly of non-political news and gossip, literature and art criticism, a chronicle of the latest fashions, and epigrams, charades and other literary trifles.
An epigraph (not to be confused with epigram) is any sort of text, from a single grapheme (such as marks on a pot that abbreviate the name of the merchant who shipped commodities in the pot) to a lengthy document (such as a treatise, a work of literature, or a hagiographic inscription).
For instance, Anyte's epigram 6, an epitaph dedicated to the unmarried Antibia, repeatedly echoes phrases from the Iliad and Odyssey. [23] She also echoes Homer in her frequent use of compound adjectives, such as her description of the poikilodeiros ("with a neck of many colours") snake in epigram 10. [ 24 ]
From Book IV of the Planudean Anthology, Epigrams on monuments, statues, etc. Cypris, seeing Cypris in Cnidus, said, "Alas! alas! where did Praxiteles see me naked?" "Cypris" refers to Aphrodite. This epigrams is considered anonymous by the Paton edition of the Greek Anthology, but J.M. Edmonds considers spurious the previous two on the same ...