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Monologue vs Prologue - What's the difference?

monologue | prologue |

As nouns the difference between monologue and prologue

is that monologue is a type of art that consist of soliloquy, a long speech by one person while prologue is a speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel.

As verbs the difference between monologue and prologue

is that monologue is to deliver a monologue while prologue is to introduce with a formal preface, or prologue.

monologue

English

Alternative forms

* monolog (qualifier)

Noun

(wikipedia monologue) (en noun)
  • (drama) A type of art that consist of soliloquy, a long speech by one person.
  • (comedy) A long series of comic stories and jokes as an entertainment.
  • A long, uninterrupted utterance that monopolizes a conversation.

    • Synonyms

    * (drama) soliloquy

    Antonyms

    * (a monopolizing utterance) dialogue

    See also

    * soliloquy

    Verb

    (monologu)
  • To deliver a monologue.
  • * (Oliver Sacks), Seeing Voices
    • Powerful parents, in her formulation, feeling themselves autonomous and powerful, give autonomy and power to their children; powerless ones, feeling themselves passive and controlled, in turn exert an excessive control on their children, and monologue at them, instead of having a dialogue with them.

    Synonyms

    * monologize ----

    prologue

    English

    (wikipedia prologue)

    Alternative forms

    * prolog

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1905, author=
    • , title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=“H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what [...] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. […]”}}
  • One who delivers a prologue.
  • * 1602 , :
    • And hither am I come, / A Prologue armed, but not in confidence / Of author's pen or actor's voice,
  • (computing) A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to execute a routine.

    • Antonyms

    * (speech or section) epilogue

    Derived terms

    * prologise / prologize / prologuise / prologuize

    Verb

    (prologu)
  • To introduce with a formal preface, or prologue.
    • (Shakespeare)

    References

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