What's the difference between epilogue and script?

Epilogue


Definition:

  • (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.

Script


Definition:

  • (n.) A writing; a written document.
  • (n.) Type made in imitation of handwriting.
  • (n.) An original instrument or document.
  • (n.) Written characters; style of writing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fluttering in the background was a black flag adorned with white script, the “black flag of jihad”.
  • (2) The leak also included the script for an in-house Sony Pictures recruitment video and performance reviews for hundreds employees.
  • (3) On 17 December Clegg will set out his own script for the year ahead, testing the idea that coalition governments can function even as the two parties clearly show their separate colours.
  • (4) In EastEnders , the mystery surrounding the identity of Kat's secret squeeze continues amid the grinding of narrative levers and the death rattle of overflogged script-horses.
  • (5) The script is taken almost entirely from Charles Webb 's excellent novel, which itself is sparely written and led by dialogue.
  • (6) Kim Kardashian: Hollywood could benefit from a sharper script and more willingness – or freedom, which may be the issue given the game’s official status – to poke at the culture it’s representing.
  • (7) If Abbott changes his formulation, he could risk an outbreak of ill-discipline within his own ranks, because these days the conservatives are more inclined to public outbreaks off-script than the moderates.
  • (8) Each moment was scripted, from the placement of his riding boots in the stirrups of the riderless black horse that accompanied his procession through Washington, to tonight’s burial at sunset back in California.
  • (9) The Center for Medical Progress may have a different name, but this is the same cast of characters and follows the same script.
  • (10) The young screenwriters possibly needed to have chalked up a few miles before they could deliver really workable scripts."
  • (11) The material in this paper provides a script for preparing a relaxation tape for clients to use between or in addition to regular therapy sessions.
  • (12) In Paris, Chancellor Angela Merkel and President François Hollande tried to plot a common strategy after Greeks returned a resounding no to five years of eurozone-scripted austerity.
  • (13) The unprogrammed component of patient ritual involvement differs between the two settings, while the formal ritual 'script' is identical.
  • (14) You read the script and you're like, "Is this actually getting made?
  • (15) Sitting at the table today, Archie is doing his best to look the part – in time-honoured hip-hop style, there is an inspirational motto tattooed on his forearm in flowing script – and he and Foster have an impressive line in managerial hyperbole: "We believe that whatever record label we work for, we can change that label for the better because we understand what kids want to listen to."
  • (16) FremantleMedia may be best known for its talent and game shows, but the company is investing more in scripted formats, with Frot-Coutaz saying this strategy is about more than simply following cyclical TV industry trends.
  • (17) It was set up as a Thames subsidiary in 1971 to specialise in high quality mainstream drama and built a reputation for shooting on film and on location, unlike much production of scripted TV output at the time.
  • (18) Certainly, the new leader will need a way to continue to talk unmediated to this base, and may also – like Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage – gain some mileage with the wider electorate for being at ease with himself, and refusing to talk to a script.
  • (19) Noice found that some actors learn their lines by focusing not on the words of the script, but on their underlying meaning and the motivations of the character who uses them.
  • (20) There’s no script so we can’t programme it on that basis.