prologuenoun
uk/ˈprəʊ.lɒɡ/us/ˈproʊ.lɑːɡ/[ C ] a part that comes at the beginning of a play, story, or long poem, often giving information about events that happened before the time when the play, story, or poem begins
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epilogue
[ S ] literary a series of events that happen before the main event and are related to it:
informal A series of internal struggles was the prologue to full-scale civil war.
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Books & parts of books
- addendum
- artwork
- bibliography
- binder
- binding
- blurb
- chapter
- errata
- erratum
- extract
- flyleaf
- folio
- foreword
- jacket
- library
- margin
- monograph
- preface
- serial
- table
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