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Don’t confuse epigram with epigraph, which refers to those quotations some writers like to put in the front matter of their novels and stories.

Anything revelatory or portentous at the end of the story is very heavy indeed.

Without sufficient eloquence, it’s a strategy likely to misfire into tendentiousness.

E. M. Forster’s classic Aspects of the Novel (1927) talks about this dimensional declension of characters from flat to round.

'Meretricious. That's the word I'd use, if asked.'