Epigram

Definition:

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

History: 

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

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

• in English, epigrams have been written by many poets since Ben Jonson´s Epigrams in 1616, another well-known epigrammatists is also 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.

Author of the page: Gabriela Pavelková

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