elegy
/ˈɛɫəˌdʒi/
a mournful poem lamenting the dead
elegy in a sentence
“Auden wrote an elegy for W.B. Yeats.”
Origin of elegy
Greek elegeia mournful poem from elegos mournful song
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deliberate exaggeration for emphasis or effect
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