(n.) A speech or short poem addressed to the spectators and recited by one of the actors, after the conclusion of the play.
(n.) The closing part of a discourse, in which the principal matters are recapitulated; a conclusion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The government has carefully rolled the political pitch for next week's cuts announcement, assisted by Liam Byrne's bizarre "no money left " epilogue on his own time at the Treasury.
(2) Lorraine's life story reads like the harrowing epilogue to one of Dunbar's plays.
(3) With the film going on general release, the restorers have appended a short video introduction and epilogue that outline the issues involved.
(4) Some of the interiors of this house were meticulously reconstructed for the film's final scene, an epilogue that Dreyer added to the play.
(5) It is not hard to imagine his staunchest critics making advance orders, although fairly certain that they will be disappointed by the time they reach the epilogue.
(6) The Epilogue of this paper examines why important parts of Wertheimer's experimental contributions to psychology may have been underrated or neglected by many contemporary psychologists.
(7) It’s about keeping businesses going rather than having a start-up, some soft grants then within six months everything’s gone.” I tell Mone that her women-can-do-anything epilogue reminded me of Nicola Sturgeon’s rousing speech in the Scottish parliament when she was elected the first female first minister last November (although the epilogue, and indeed the entire book, is rather more sweary than the Holyrood debating chamber is used to).
(8) Novelists don't write epilogues saying "please give me money".
(9) Thomas Dekker groused that “the scene after the Epilogue hath been more blacke – a nasty bawdy jigge – than the most horrid scene in the play was”.
(10) Epilogue Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ahn celebrates his goal, but nothing would ever be this good again for South Korea's matchwinner.
(11) His widow, Annie, confirms in the epilogue, dated St Valentine's Day 1997, that he meant it.
(12) A crisis was inevitable, and last Friday it arrived , an unsurprising epilogue to a job estimated as being 12 times more deadly than being a US soldier at the height of the Iraq war : 16 people, of whom 13 were Sherpas, were killed in an avalanche as they readied the slopes for the summit window in May.
(13) It was a heartbreaking epilogue to 2014 for Pakistani children, who have seen about 1,000 schools closed by the Taliban in recent years.
(14) This is followed by the author's closing remarks for the last session of the mini-course, an Epilogue.
(15) An epilogue After my story was published, the Consumers Union wrote a letter to the editor strongly disagreeing with its conclusions.
(16) In the epilogue some remarks are made on the possibilities of introduction of the opting out system in countries now applying opting in.
(17) On the contrary, in the case shown by the authors, the subacute epilogue occurred in the perimenopausal phase: a very large colpohematometra is reported in a 49 years old woman, with an incomplete vaginal septum resulting in progressive obstruction.
(18) ON THE NEXT ... Epilogue segment, purportedly sharing clips of the next instalment, but in reality showing non-sequiturs and sight gags.
(19) I’m not surprised.” In the New York Times, Kakutani dismissed the biography as “a dreary slog of a read: a bloated, tedious and – given its highly intemperate epilogue – ill-considered book that is in desperate need of editing, and way more exhausting than exhaustive.” A spokesman for Obama declined to comment.
(20) Similarly, I allowed my Handmaid a possible escape, via Maine and Canada; and I also permitted an epilogue, from the perspective of which both the Handmaid and the world she lived in have receded into history.
Prologue
Definition:
(n.) The preface or introduction to a discourse, poem, or performance; as, the prologue of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales;" esp., a discourse or poem spoken before a dramatic performance
(n.) One who delivers a prologue.
(v. t.) To introduce with a formal preface, or prologue.
Example Sentences:
(1) The organisers are expecting 3 million people to line Yorkshire's highways and byways for the two stages – 2 million more than turned out for the Prologue of the 2007 tour, a time trial around London.
(2) Many of the answers are contained in the first words that Rylance spoke, in the prologue to Henry V .
(3) After a short prologue, where it's established that a tall man and a young boy survive whatever it is we're about to read (and end up in the far sunnier climes of Mexico), we meet the town itself.
(4) As Motion's prologue makes clear, this is a "found poem" – the literary equivalent of the objet trouvé (did Damien Hirst "make" that sheep he dunked in formaldehyde?
(5) In her prologue, Moran bemoans the fact that the women's revolution "had somehow shrunk down into a couple of increasingly small arguments, carried out between a couple of dozen feminist academics, in books that only feminist academics would read".
(6) The development of hospital and health care, the evolution of medical and pharmaceutical sciences, and the growth of pharmacy as a profession are described as prologue to the development of hospital pharmacy.
(7) Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian What is Shakespeare's prologue but a prescription for avant garde theatre?
(8) A likely prologue for Liby's case came in April 2011, when US special operations forces captured Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame off the Somali coast.
(9) The physician information comes from Prologue's data base of more than 10,000 participating physicians in more than 45 specialties.
(10) A prologue on science and statistics focuses attention on the role of statistics in science.
(11) In the book’s prologue, Aristegui expresses disappointment with the owners of MVS Radio – the Vargas family – and says they suffered a “moral collapse” in agreeing to fire her.
(12) This prologue to a symposium of research studies on motor mechanisms is a general commentary by a clinical neurologist.
(13) "Like all children of divorce," her poignant prologue reads, "I want to see my parents back together."
(14) A likely prologue for Liby's case came in April 2011, when US special operations forces captured Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame off the Somali coast, and kept him in the brig of the USS Boxer for nearly three months of interrogation before the navy took him to the southern district of New York to face terrorism charges.
(15) The reader already knows more about this plot than Kenton does, because in the prologue we witness a gathering of the senior conspirators: a meeting of the board of the Pan-Eurasian Petroleum Company in the City of London.
(16) Click here to watch video The first minute is very slow and dark, a zen prologue of slow-evolving patterns.
(17) It was the prologue of the second world war; it generated a dictatorship that lasted almost 40 years and its effects continue into our times.
(18) This will be the fourth time since 2008 that the race has dispensed with the traditional prologue time trial, and on paper at least it should produce the classic scenario of an early breakaway caught as the finish approaches, offering Mark Cavendish a chance to win in the city which, by happy coincidence, is where his mother lives.
(19) There is a tendency to believe the past is prologue because former first lady Hillary Clinton has been such a big political figure, but I don’t think that’s the case.” Obama has become adept at using media appearances – most memorably James Corden’s carpool karaoke – to promote worthy causes to mass audiences.
(20) The lawsuit against Penguin and Arestegui, filed by the owners of MVS Radio on 29 May, demands the withdrawal of all copies of the book, a public apology and the removal of the book’s current prologue from any future editions.