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How to use epigram in a sentence

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Shakespeare's last two sonnets are variations on an anacreontic epigram from The Greek Anthology.
Yet one of her favoured modes of writing is the epigram, that celebration of inversion.
Horace's satire and Jonson's epigram have proven similarly resistant to efforts at critical appreciation.
She lets one pithy epigram after the next fall flat, sadly clouding the brilliance of this real gem of a play.
Many blogs feature in their heading a maxim, aphorism, saying, adage, axiom, saw, proverb, epigram or precept.
He was a master of the scintillating surface, the witty musical epigram, the surprising twist.
He also takes over a number of themes from Hellenistic poetry, especially from Greek epigram.
The forms of satirical discourse and epigram are introduced to convey his opinions more directly.
Today an epigram is generally defined as any short poem with a witty ending.
As the epigram to this article demonstrates, militaristic language dramatized the contest beyond mere political fortunes.
His mouth was open, as though he were about to declaim a poem, or speak an epigram.
It should be clear from these quotes that Davis is an effortless formalist, and he excels at the epigram, aubade, and sonnet.
I can only hope that you will take this magnificent epigram as the motto of Unesco itself, and also of this conference.
Each painting has a calligraphic caption that is a poetic quote or a philosophical epigram.
The quick eye for effects, the clear diagnosis of men's minds, and the love of epigram.
At the hands of Martial, the epigram achieved the stinging quality still associated with it.
In the office they write poetry and songs and recite poems at lunch hour. Perhaps the epigram on a giant yellow and orange curved wall in Tsui's office best summarizes the spirit of his work.
Martial wrote a satirical epigram criticising a certain Mancino for hosting unworthy banquets which lacked various delicacies, in particular picenae olives.
Raise ducks.2 This strategy could serve as an epigram for one of the essential tasks the whole world faces-adjusting to and thriving amidst the changes on the way.
His poetic abilities impressed those like Giovanni Salzilli, who praised Milton within an epigram.
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Examples from Classical Literature
His prelusive sentiments are sometimes far-fetched, and converge not with a natural declination into the focus of epigram.
Nevertheless, Borbonius thought his epigram concluded elegantly in that line because he found in Catullus a similar one.
Who could have supposed that all this time Tiresias was concocting an epigram on Pluto!
If your Majesty would only condescend to turn the epigram into an epithalamium?
According to an epigram quoted by Vossius from the Anthologia, Alcaeus, the comic writer, died under this very punishment.
Mendelssohn seeking an epigram had stumbled into a dubious oracle.
And, as a further favour, finish the hexameter in this epigram?
The debate upon this appointment gave the spoilsman an epigram.
Oddly enough, this last cockney epigram clings to my memory.
A war is undertaken for an epigram or a distich, as in Europe for a duchy.
The poet Martial corroborates this account in his fifty-third epigram.
Among the poetic forms included are rondeau, terza rima, limerick, tetractys, cinquain, sonnet, pantoum, haiku, double dactyl, and epigram.
He was a master of epigram, and theologically inclined to Calvinism.
One of the neatest wishes of this kind is in a Greek epigram.
A ploughboy's epigram would not have seemed more out of place.
There is a somewhat similar play in the epigram of ausonius, xxiii.
In the society in which she lived such plain statements produced the effect of the wittiest epigram.
The epigram, with its faint whiff of the eighties, meant nothing.
It is sometimes an epigram, and at worst it is never a quotation.
It's a common melodrama with bits of wit and epigram stuck on to it!
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