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Example sentences for: epigrams

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Although epigrams are usually sorted into content categories, I am going to attempt a semantic and structural taxonomy.
As Roger Wescott has shown (in a 1980 article), epigrams also evolved from proverbs and adages.
O scar Wilde's comedies are doubtless long-winded, but their wind blows in from a high peak: The characters' formulations are bracing, and their epigrams have a sting.
As we shall see, many epigrams fall into more than one category, but the categories themselves are conceptually distinct.
Poems rely on narrative imagery to evoke feelings, while epigrams focus on contradictions to provoke thought.