epigram 音标拼音: ['ɛpəgr
, æm]
n . 警句,讽刺短诗
警句,讽刺短诗
epigram n 1 :
a witty saying [
synonym : {
epigram }, {
quip }]
Epigram \
Ep "
i *
gram \,
n . [
L .
epigramma ,
fr .
Gr . ?
inscription ,
epigram ,
fr . ?
to write upon , '
epi `
upon ?
to write :
cf .
F .
['
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pigramme .
See {
Graphic }.]
1 .
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 .
[
1913 Webster ]
Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram ?
--
Shak .
[
1913 Webster ]
Note :
Epigrams were originally inscription on tombs ,
statues ,
temples ,
triumphal arches ,
etc .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
An effusion of wit ;
a bright thought tersely and sharply expressed ,
whether in verse or prose .
[
1913 Webster ]
3 .
The style of the epigram .
[
1913 Webster ]
Antithesis ,
i .
e .,
bilateral stroke ,
is the soul of epigram in its later and technical signification .
--
B .
Cracroft .
Epigrammatic 148 Moby Thesaurus words for "
epigram ":
Atticism ,
English sonnet ,
Horatian ode ,
Italian sonnet ,
Petrarchan sonnet ,
Pindaric ode ,
Sapphic ode ,
Shakespearean sonnet ,
abridgment ,
adage ,
alba ,
ana ,
anacreontic ,
analects ,
aphorism ,
apophthegm ,
apothegm ,
axiom ,
balada ,
ballad ,
ballade ,
bon mot ,
boutade ,
bright idea ,
bright thought ,
brilliant idea ,
bucolic ,
byword ,
canso ,
catchword ,
chanson ,
clerihew ,
collected sayings ,
conceit ,
crack ,
current saying ,
dictate ,
dictum ,
dirge ,
distich ,
dithyramb ,
double entendre ,
eclogue ,
elegy ,
epic ,
epithalamium ,
epode ,
epopee ,
epopoeia ,
epos ,
equivoque ,
expression ,
facetiae ,
flash of wit ,
flight of wit ,
georgic ,
ghazel ,
gibe ,
gnome ,
golden saying ,
haiku ,
happy thought ,
idyll ,
jeu de mots ,
jingle ,
limerick ,
lyric ,
madrigal ,
maxim ,
monody ,
moral ,
mot ,
motto ,
narrative poem ,
nasty crack ,
nursery rhyme ,
ode ,
oracle ,
palinode ,
paronomasia ,
pastoral ,
pastoral elegy ,
pastorela ,
pastourelle ,
persiflage ,
phrase ,
pithy saying ,
play of wit ,
play on words ,
pleasantry ,
poem ,
precept ,
prescript ,
prothalamium ,
proverb ,
proverbial saying ,
proverbs ,
pun ,
quip ,
quips and cranks ,
repartee ,
retort ,
rhyme ,
riposte ,
rondeau ,
rondel ,
roundel ,
roundelay ,
sally ,
satire ,
saw ,
saying ,
scintillation ,
sentence ,
sententious expression ,
sestina ,
sloka ,
smart crack ,
smart saying ,
snappy comeback ,
song ,
sonnet ,
sonnet sequence ,
stock saying ,
stroke of wit ,
sutra ,
tanka ,
teaching ,
tenso ,
tenzone ,
text ,
threnody ,
triolet ,
troubadour poem ,
turn of phrase ,
turn of thought ,
verse ,
verselet ,
versicle ,
villanelle ,
virelay ,
wisdom ,
wisdom literature ,
wise saying ,
wisecrack ,
witticism ,
word ,
words of wisdom
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