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Don't confuse '''elegy''' with '''eulogy''' - two words of similar appearance which are both used in contexts of death.
*An '''elegy''' is most commonly a poem lamenting the death of a person, or, less commonly, a group of people, an idea or a period, etcetera. For more, see AWE's page on [[elegy]].
**The associated [[adjective]] is '''elegiac'''; the agent-noun (the person writing an elegy) is an '''elegist'''.
*A '''eulogy''' is a composition, prose or verse, in praise of someone. Such a composition is commonly, but not only, read at funeral services. See also [[Eulogy - encomium - panegyric - paean]].
**The associated [[adjective]] is '''eulogistic[al]'''; the agent-noun (the person writing an elegy) is a '''eulogist'''.

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