what is ephigram? in Figure of Speech
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Definition of Epigram. Epigram is a rhetorical device that is a memorable, brief, interesting, and surprising satirical statement. ... This literary device is commonly used in poetry, where it appears as a short satirical poem with a single subject, ending in an ingenious or witty thought.
The last two couplets of the sonnet read as follows:
So all my best is dressing old words new,
Spending again what is already spent:
For as the sun is daily new and old,
So is my love still telling what is told.
Those four lines are packed with epigrams. Twice he refers to items and ideas as being both old and new at the same time, and he states that he is spending something that has already been spent. The purpose is to show his confusion with the lover, and perhaps about his own feelings
The last two couplets of the sonnet read as follows:
So all my best is dressing old words new,
Spending again what is already spent:
For as the sun is daily new and old,
So is my love still telling what is told.
Those four lines are packed with epigrams. Twice he refers to items and ideas as being both old and new at the same time, and he states that he is spending something that has already been spent. The purpose is to show his confusion with the lover, and perhaps about his own feelings
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can you give me some example
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Epigram is a rhetorical device that is a memorable, brief, interesting, and surprising satirical statement. ... This literary device is commonly used in poetry, where it appears as a short satirical poem with a single subject, ending in an ingenious or witty thought.
For e.g. John Donne uses an epigram in his poem "Hero and Leander" when he writes:
"Both robb'd of air, we both lie in one ground
Both whom one fire had burnt, one water drown'd." While there is certainly no apparent humor in this poem, there is a contradiction.
hope this helps u....
Epigram is a rhetorical device that is a memorable, brief, interesting, and surprising satirical statement. ... This literary device is commonly used in poetry, where it appears as a short satirical poem with a single subject, ending in an ingenious or witty thought.
For e.g. John Donne uses an epigram in his poem "Hero and Leander" when he writes:
"Both robb'd of air, we both lie in one ground
Both whom one fire had burnt, one water drown'd." While there is certainly no apparent humor in this poem, there is a contradiction.
hope this helps u....
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