Epigram

Definition: 

• a short saying or poem that expresses an idea in a clever, funny way (Cambridge Dictionary)

History: 

• originally a form a monumental inscription in ancient Greece (Baldick)

• epigrams was cultivated in the 17th and 18th centuries in France and Germany by Voltaire, Schiller and others (Baldick)

• English epigrams have been written by many poets since Ben Jonson´s Epigrams in 1616 and also by another epigrammatists Oscar Wilde (Baldick)

Examples:

Sources: 

Cambridge Dictionary. “Epigram.” @CambridgeWords, 19 Jan. 2022, dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/epigram.

Baldick, Chris. The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. Oxford University Press, 2015.

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Author of the page: Gabriela Pavelková