A brief and brilliant expression intended to produce surprise and pleasure is called -

• A brief and brilliant expression intended to produce surprise and pleasure is called - Wit.
- The characteristic features of wit are brevity, ingenuity, amusement and quickness in effect.
- Wit is intellectual
- Wit has another meaning. In the Neo-classical periods writers were called wits.

অন্যদিকে,
• Paradox - A self-contradictory statement that hides a rational meaning।
• Epiphany - A moment of sudden revelation pr awareness that changes the course of life of the major character of a novel or short story.
• Epithet - basically an adjective placed before or after a person or a thing.

Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr. M Mofizar Rahman.