Epigraph

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

In literature, an epigraph is a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document, monograph or section or chapter thereof.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Epigraph (literature)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Joseph Priestley, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.