mindmap root((EPI)) epilogue The final section after the main part of a book or play.
🌱Her editor told her the book really needed an epilogue, to tell where each member of the family is today. 🌳From its Greek roots, epilogue means basically "words attached （at the end）." An epilogue often somehow wraps up a story's action, as in the one for a famous Shakespeare play that ends, "For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo." In nonfiction books, we now often use the term afterword instead of epilogue, just as we now generally use foreword instead of prologue （See LOG.）Movies also often have a kind of epilogue—maybe a scene after the exciting climax when the surviving lovers meet in a café to talk about their future. The epilogue of a musical composition, after all the drama is over, is called the coda （Italian for "tail". epiphyte A plant that obtains its nutrients from the air and the rain and usually grows on another plant for support.
🌱The strangler fig begins life as an epiphyte on a tree branch, drops its tendrils to take root in the ground around the trunk, and slowly covers and strangles the tree to death. 🌳Epiphytic plants are sometimes known as "air plants" because they seemingly survive on thin air. They rely on their host plants merely for physical support, not nourishment. Tropical epiphytes include orchids, ferns, and members of the pineapple family. To a newcomer in the tropical rain forest, the first sight of a great tree with large epiphytes hanging from every level can be eerie and astonishing. Familiar epiphytes of the temperate zone include lichens, mosses, and algae, which may grow on rocks or water without touching the soil. epitaph An inscription on a grave or tomb in memory of the one buried there.
🌱The great architect Christopher Wren designed London's majestic St. Paul's Cathedral, the site of his tomb and epitaph: "Si monumentum requiris, circumspice" （"If you seek my monument, look around you"）. 🌳Epitaph includes the root from the Greek word taphos,"tomb" or "funeral." Traditionally, epitaph refers to a tombstone inscription, but it can also refer to brief memorial statements that resemble such inscriptions. One of the most famous is Henry Lee's epitaph for George Washington: "First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." epithet 1、 A descriptive word or phrase occurring with or in place of the name of a person or thing.
2、 An insulting or demeaning word or phrase.
🌱King Richard I of England earned the epithet "Lionhearted," while his brother, King John, was given the epithet "Lackland." 🌳From its Greek roots, epithet would mean something "put on," or added. Sometimes the added name follows a given name, as in Erik the Red or Billy the Kid. In other cases, the epithet precedes the personal name, as in Mahatma （"Great-souled"） Gandhi. In still others, it's used in place of the actual name, as in El Greco （"The Greek"） or El Cid （"The Lord"）. In its other common meaning, an epithet is a mocking or insulting name （like "Lackland" in the example sentence）. When enemies are said to be "hurling epithets" at each other, it means they're exchanging angry insults.