PROLOGUE

Prologue

A prologue is an opening to a story that establishes the setting and gives background details, often some earlier story that ties into the main one, and other miscellaneous information. The Greek prologos included the modern meaning of prologue, but was of wider significance, more like the meaning of preface. In a book, the prologue is a part of the front matter which is in the on the facts related in the prologue. The importance, therefore, of the prologue in Greek drama was very great; it sometimes almost took the place of a romance, to which, or to an episode in which, the play itself succeeded.

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prologue

Noun

  1. A speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel.
  2. One who delivers a prologue.
  3. A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to execute a routine.

Verb

  1. To introduce with a formal preface, or prologue.


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