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Elegy began to be so called because

  1. it was written in the elegiac measure

  2. it was a poem of sorrow

  3. it was written by writers of elegies

  4. some expert critics named it so
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Explanation

The term elegy originally comes from the Greek 'elegos' and the elegiac meter, a specific poetic couplet form. Only later did it become associated primarily with mourning and sorrow.

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