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 ep·i·gram /ˈɛpəˌgræm/
 警句,諷刺短詩

 Ep·i·gram n.
 1. A short poem treating concisely and pointedly of a single thought or event. The modern epigram is so contrived as to surprise the reader with a witticism or ingenious turn of thought, and is often satirical in character.
    Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?   --Shak.
 Note: ☞ Epigrams were originally inscription on tombs, statues, temples, triumphal arches, etc.
 2. An effusion of wit; a bright thought tersely and sharply expressed, whether in verse or prose.
 3. The style of the epigram.
    Antithesis, =\i. e., bilateral stroke, is the soul of epigram in its later and technical signification.\=   --B. Cracroft.
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 epigram
      n : a witty saying [syn: quip]