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Couplet vs Epic - What's the difference?

couplet | epic |

As nouns the difference between couplet and epic

is that couplet is (literature) a pair of lines with rhyming end words while epic is an extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity or demigod (heroic epic) or other legendary or traditional hero.

As an adjective epic is

of, or relating to, an epic.

couplet

Noun

(en noun)
  • (literature) A pair of lines with rhyming end words.
  • A pair of one-way streets which carry opposing directions of traffic through gridded urban areas.
  • 5th Street is one-way west only and 6th Street is one-way east only. Together, they form a couplet in

    Synonyms

    * (streets)

    See also

    * tercet * quatrain * cinquain * sestet * septet * octave

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    epic

    English

    Initialism

    (Initialism) (head)
  • (computing) Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing.
  • (electronics) Etched and Polycrystalline carried IC.
  • (electronics) Epitaxial Integrated Circuit.
  • (legal) Estates and Protected Individuals Code.
  • See also

    *

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