prologue

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Books & parts of books
acknowledgment
acknowledgmentsphrase
addendum
artwork
bibliographical
bibliographically
concordance
edition
epigraph
errata
erratum
ex-libris
jacket
library
monograph
non-biographical
omnibus
preface
spine
verso

Examples from literature

Already his fellow-playwrights deemed their success as fearfully uncertain, unless they had secured, price three guineas, a prologue or epilogue from the Laureate. 
The prologue and epilogue, without which in those times no gentleman's drama was accounted complete, was written, the former by Charles Lamb, the latter by the author himself. 
There is, however, an epilogue to this tale which cannot well be left untold. 
Why there should be an epilogue to a play I know no cause. 
With the exception of the prologue and epilogue the action of the piece takes place in a dream, and he took upon himself the invention of the most bizarre combinations. 

epilogue | American Dictionary

epilogue
noun[ C ]
us/ˈep·əˌlɑɡ, -ˌlɔɡ/
literature
a speech or piece of text added to the end of a play or book, often giving a short statement about what happens to the characters after the play or book finishes

Examples of epilogue

epilogue
These, then, are the core ideas explored in the book, which is organized into a short introduction, four long chapters and a short epilogue.
An epilogue briefly describes this development in whaling after 1931.
In addition to the 27 tables that appear in the text, 33 pages of appendices follow the epilogue.
Like most contemporary political studies, this book needs a running epilogue.
Chapters 8 and 9 contain the conclusion and epilogue.
But in the epilogue her speech finally acquires a human softness.
In addition to a prologue and an epilogue, there were fifty scenes taking place in four different countries with over 180 performers.
The epilogue considers the role of music in the future + including the imminent demise of the classical concert in an age of three-minute attention spans.
When the audience noticed this, they began to clap, and continued clapping throughout the musical interlude that precedes the epilogue.
She has a brief epilogue in which she suggests that the most effective forms of resistance were refusal to pay taxes and outmigration.
These are questions to which we shall return in the epilogue.
Three chapters of a more polemical character, together with an epilogue, bring the book to a close.
It is introduced and concluded by a prolegomenon and an epilogue by the editor.
Such an exercise could have taken form in a conclusion or epilogue, either of which are absent.
The editor ends the book with an epilogue.
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