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Trilogy vs Threequel - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between trilogy and threequel

is that trilogy is a set of three works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games while threequel is the chronologically third part of any series of works, especially a movie trilogy.

trilogy

English

(wikipedia trilogy)

Noun

(trilogies)
  • A set of three works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
  • * 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
    • That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy ’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.

    Related terms

    * tetralogy (4) * pentalogy (5) * hexalogy (6) * heptalogy (7) * octalogy (8) * ennealogy (9) * decalogy (10) * polylogy (2+)

    threequel

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (narratology) The chronologically third part of any series of works, especially a movie trilogy.
  • *1979 May 25, Janet Maslin, “Inside a Floating Hulk”, The New York Times
    • When last seen, the “Poseidon” had been blown into small pieces. With any luck, this means Mr. Allen can’t possibly make a threequel .
  • *1999 June 30, Katherine Anne Ackley, Perspectives on Contemporary Issues'', ''Readings Across the Disciplines , Harcourt, fourth edition, Thomson Wadsworth (2006), ISBN 1413010687, page 267
    • On the contrary, last summer saw two jocular parodies of 1970’s blaxploitation films: the minor hit Undercover Brother'' and Beyonce Knowles’s portrayal of ''Foxxy Cleopatra , a character in the Austin Powers “threequel .”
  • *2007' January 5, Stephen Humphries, “ At theaters in 2007, the year of the ''''threequel '”, ''The Christian Science Monitor
    • This may be the year of the threequel , but not all the franchises will be successful, predicts Mr. Gray.
  • *2007 April 16, Brian Mciver, “ Return of the Threequel”, The Daily Record
    • THE biggest threequels to date have included some great films.
    The third part of the original Star Wars trilogy, Return of the Jedi (1983), then Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005) were huge hits.