Question

The word "elegy" comes from Greek word .....................

• A. elagor
• B. elaion
• C. elephas
• D. elegos

Answer 1

Answer:

D. elegos

• Elegos means "mournful poem"

• The elegy which belongs to the category of serious meditative poetry is a formal poem composed on the loss of something loved, destruction of something great and valuable, separation from someone near and dear and the death of an individual or upon death itself.