0 a saying or a part of a poem, play, or book put at the beginning of a piece of writing to give the reader some idea of what the piece is about
It would give wide latitude to a witty remark, which has become proverbial, to make it the epigraph of these memoirs.
The two plays bearing as epigraph the name of that famous soldier and conspirator are a storehouse of lofty thought and splendid verse, with scarcely a flash or sparkle of dramatic action.
Historical linguistics is an engaging, hands-on introduction to the field, from the quaint epigraphs beginning each chapter to the well-planned exercises concluding them.
This disguise takes various forms - from the placement of the poems, to their epigraphs, to the self-conscious allusions within them.
Returning to the epigraph of this essay, colonization is presented as filling up the open space of the body.
Each band has two horizontal registers of pictorial imagery, which are occasionally captioned with brief epigraphs that identify the scenes.
At the top of the poster appears a poetic manifesto of viejoteca philosophy (cited as the epigraph to this article).
Perhaps, in her epigraphs to male poets, she wished to make a critical point about the genre and history of the love lament.
