【Epigram】 is a short humorous saying.

• Oscar Wilde wrote the 【epigram】 : “I can resist everything except temptation.”

Epigraph is a brief quotation at the beginning of a book or an inscription on a monument, statue, or building.

• The epigraph to E. M. Forster’s novel Howards End is “Only connect!”

Epitaph is a tribute to a dead person inscribed on a gravestone.

• A famous epitaph on a poker player’s gravestone reads, “He played five aces, now he plays the harp.”

Epithet is a short descriptive word or phrase applied to a person.

• Bravery earned Richard Coeur de Lion the epithet ‘Lionheart’.