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epigraph::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | inscription, lettering |
Examples of epigraph
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It should be noted, too, that Gruen has come up with the best ever epigraph page.
From the suntimes.com
Pound's epigraph suggests the even more informal origins of a conversation.
From the guardian.co.uk
The same year, Akhmatova used a line from Fiza as an epigraph to her book White Flock.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Small seal script epigraph on the standard weight prototype of Qin Dynasty.
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The epigraph in memory of Deng is written in Chinese, Russian and Kirghiz.
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My second reaction was that Zakaria is still fixated with the epigraph of his first book.
From the theatlantic.com
According to Ron Banerjee, the epigraph serves to cast ironic light on Prufrock's intent.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The epigraph to Eliot's Gerontion is a quotation from Shakespeare's Measure for Measure.
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It's almost always a mistake to give a novel more than one epigraph.
From the time.com
- A quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing
- An engraved inscription
- Epigraphy is the study of inscriptions or epigraphs as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the writing and the writers...
- In literature, an epigraph is a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or component. The epigraph may serve as a preface, as a summary, as a counter-example, or to link the work to a wider literary canon, either to invite comparison or to enlist a conventional context.
- And the strict epigraph of the function is: The set is empty if .
- An inscription, especially one on a building etc; a literary quotation placed at the beginning of a book etc; (of a function) the set of all points lying on or above its graph
- A brief quotation which appears at the beginning of a literary work. The following is the epigraph from T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. ...
- A quotation, or a sentence composed for the purpose, placed at the beginning of a literary work or one of its separate divisions, usually suggestive of the theme.
- A quotation, taken from another literary work, that is placed at the start of a poem under the title. For example, T. S. Eliot's "Gerontion" begins with a quotation from Shakespeare's play Measure for Measure.
