Elegy GRE Vocabulary Flashcard
/ˈel.ə.dʒi/ (noun)
Definition
a sad and mournful song or poem over the death of someone, funeral poem, sorrowful speech, threnody, dirge, lament, lamentation, eulogy, requiem, funeral song
Example
In English literature, an elegy is a poem of serious reflection, usually a lament for the dead. However, “for all of its pervasiveness … the ‘elegy’ remains remarkably ill defined: sometimes used as a catch-all to denominate texts of a somber or pessimistic tone, sometimes as a marker for textual monumentalizing, and sometimes strictly as a sign of a lament for the dead”.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/
Parts of speech
Adjective: elegiac
Adverb: elegiacally
Noun: elegist
Verb: elegize
