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Definition of epigraph in English: epigraphnoun ˈɛpɪɡrɑːfˈɛpəˌɡræf 1An inscription on a building, statue, or coin. Example sentencesExamples - The epigraph could be seen clearly on the pillars and walls.
Synonyms engraving, wording, writing, lettering, legend, epitaph, etching, carving 2A short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter, intended to suggest its theme. Example sentencesExamples - The satirical structure and style of the novel are suggested by an epigraph from Mark Twain's travel book.
- As my epigraph suggests, to be ‘strange’ is to be ‘real.’
- The voice in the first epigraph is that of a teacher helping a student with her English pronunciation.
- (Stowe also included a fragment from it as the epigraph to Chapter 37 of Uncle Tom's Cabin).
- Each of the twelve poems in the third section of the book sports an epigraph from a Emerson essay.
- Now the general issue about whether rich countries should do this is a complex one; but the issue raised by one of the epigraphs with which the article starts is not.
- A secondary group of camera movement predictions that Colin makes (see the epigraph at the beginning of this section) are genre-specific and will require a different approach to evaluate.
- The first to appear is the epigraph to the fourth chapter.
- This conclusion together with the epigraph quoted at the beginning of this review establishes theoretical psychology as much more than a subdiscipline.
- Past horrors and present dreams (echoing the book's epigraph from Sassoon) buckle together at the moment of ‘observing.’
- The book begins with an epigraph from Edgar Allan Poe and then spins out 23 stories connected by a thin meta-narrative: novelists stranded at a writers' retreat.
- The epigraph, a quotation from Dante, further obscures the atmosphere.
- The first is to be found in the epigraph from Milton's Paradise Lost on the novel's title-page.
- To be sure, as our epigraphs suggest, this is not the first time that the issue of canonicity in the domain of law and literature has been raised.
- In order to write myself out of the dilemma that I state in the epigraph of the book, I turned to the generative ‘singularities,’ ‘fictions’ of other literary voices.
- Why do I feel certain the first epigraph is from the past and the second is our contemporary?
- I have invoked Shelley as an epigraph because he identified the dangers of hubris and vanity when desire is exhausted and over-idealized.
- Indeed, the straightforward simplicity of the first epigraph is atypical of her generally more experimental and abstract poetry.
- However, consideration of the entire passage from which the epigraph is taken suggests a subtlely different interpretation.
Synonyms quotation, stock phrase, platitude, cliché, epithet, quote, extract, excerpt, passage, allusion, phrase
Origin Late 16th century (denoting the heading of a document or letter): from Greek epigraphē, from epigraphein 'write on'. Definition of epigraph in US English: epigraphnounˈepəˌɡrafˈɛpəˌɡræf 1An inscription on a building, statue, or coin. Example sentencesExamples - The epigraph could be seen clearly on the pillars and walls.
Synonyms engraving, wording, writing, lettering, legend, epitaph, etching, carving - 1.1 A short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter, intended to suggest its theme.
Example sentencesExamples - To be sure, as our epigraphs suggest, this is not the first time that the issue of canonicity in the domain of law and literature has been raised.
- As my epigraph suggests, to be ‘strange’ is to be ‘real.’
- Why do I feel certain the first epigraph is from the past and the second is our contemporary?
- In order to write myself out of the dilemma that I state in the epigraph of the book, I turned to the generative ‘singularities,’ ‘fictions’ of other literary voices.
- The satirical structure and style of the novel are suggested by an epigraph from Mark Twain's travel book.
- The voice in the first epigraph is that of a teacher helping a student with her English pronunciation.
- Past horrors and present dreams (echoing the book's epigraph from Sassoon) buckle together at the moment of ‘observing.’
- A secondary group of camera movement predictions that Colin makes (see the epigraph at the beginning of this section) are genre-specific and will require a different approach to evaluate.
- The first is to be found in the epigraph from Milton's Paradise Lost on the novel's title-page.
- I have invoked Shelley as an epigraph because he identified the dangers of hubris and vanity when desire is exhausted and over-idealized.
- The book begins with an epigraph from Edgar Allan Poe and then spins out 23 stories connected by a thin meta-narrative: novelists stranded at a writers' retreat.
- (Stowe also included a fragment from it as the epigraph to Chapter 37 of Uncle Tom's Cabin).
- Now the general issue about whether rich countries should do this is a complex one; but the issue raised by one of the epigraphs with which the article starts is not.
- The epigraph, a quotation from Dante, further obscures the atmosphere.
- This conclusion together with the epigraph quoted at the beginning of this review establishes theoretical psychology as much more than a subdiscipline.
- Each of the twelve poems in the third section of the book sports an epigraph from a Emerson essay.
- Indeed, the straightforward simplicity of the first epigraph is atypical of her generally more experimental and abstract poetry.
- The first to appear is the epigraph to the fourth chapter.
- However, consideration of the entire passage from which the epigraph is taken suggests a subtlely different interpretation.
Synonyms quotation, stock phrase, platitude, cliché, epithet, quote, extract, excerpt, passage, allusion, phrase
Origin Late 16th century (denoting the heading of a document or letter): from Greek epigraphē, from epigraphein ‘write on’. |