epiloguenoun [ C ]
US also epilog uk/ˈep.ɪ.lɒɡ/us/ˈep.ə.lɑːɡ/a speech or piece of text that is 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
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Books & parts of books
- addendum
- artwork
- bibliography
- binder
- binding
- blurb
- chapter
- erratum
- extract
- flyleaf
- folio
- foreword
- frontispiece
- library
- margin
- monograph
- preface
- prologue
- serial
- table
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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.