An aphorism is a short, pointed statement expressing a truth, doctrine or precept.
Good aphoristic definitions of words allow you to experience feeling and imagination from the point of view of their originator.
They convey a meaning and a truth that dictionary definitions lack.
This exercise permits you to express and extend your own experiential quality and flavor to a word, and what it individualistically means to you.
For example:.
Marriage -- A lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame DiRieux.
One long conversation, checkered by disputes.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson.
Now create and write an aphorism for each of the following words:.
For example, Retirement is what men do when they die and women do when they marry.
Retirement Politics Reality Happiness.
Creativity Power Lov e Tidiness.
An epithet is a descriptive word or phrase that expresses some real or implied quality of a person or thing in place of the name (e.g.
"Charles the Great" for Charlemagne).
Create a catchy epithet for each of the following:.
Atlantis George Washington Columbus.
Aztec Empire Roman Empire Ronald Reagan.