What is the difference between prologue and epilogue?
prologue | epilogue | Antonyms |
A speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel.
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, chapter=2 One who delivers a prologue.
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(computing) A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to execute a routine.
To introduce with a formal preface, or prologue.
A short speech, spoken directly at the audience at the end of a play
The performer who gives this speech
A brief oration or script at the end of a literary piece; an afterword
(computing) A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to return from a routine.
Epilogue is a antonym of prologue.
In computing terms the difference between prologue and epilogue
is that prologue is a component of a computer program that prepares the computer to execute a routine while epilogue is a component of a computer program that prepares the computer to return from a routine.As nouns the difference between prologue and epilogue
is that prologue is a speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel while epilogue is a short speech, spoken directly at the audience at the end of a play.As a verb prologue
is to introduce with a formal preface, or prologue.prologue
English
(wikipedia prologue)Alternative forms
* prologNoun
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- And hither am I come, / A Prologue armed, but not in confidence / Of author's pen or actor's voice,
Antonyms
* (speech or section) epilogueDerived terms
* prologise / prologize / prologuise / prologuizeVerb
(prologu)- (Shakespeare)