Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (1-31)

I'm not actually asking you to turn in all the exercises, but please do try your hand at differentiating between aphorisms and epigrams.

Remember... the point of an aphorism is to communicate a point with clarity and precision. The point of an epigram is to be witty, so while it may make a moral statement or communicate a universal truth, it does so through some kind of linguistic twist or reversal.

So if it makes you smile, it's probably an epigram; if it makes you stoke your chin thoughtfully, it's probably an aphorism.