Epigraphs

and how they're a little like cognates

First of all, I have a cold and my voice is raspy, so this post is not recorded. Sorry.

This is the “epigraph” at the start of the first chapter of “The Deerslayer” by James Fenimore Cooper.

epigraph — a quotation set at the beginning of a literary work or one of its divisions to suggest its theme

epígrafe — the Spanish cognate of the same meaning

An “epigr…