Read the line from Act II of The Importance of Being Earnest . Cecily: It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The literary device used in this line is a(n)

An epigram is a brief, witty, memorable statement. Cecily humorously claims that parting is painful even when she has known someone only briefly, making the line a pointed observation in Wilde’s epigrammatic style. The answer is “epigram.”

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