Opening to a story that establishes the setting and gives background details.
1 This is the prologue or rather the first scene of the drama.
2 All went well; Vivian wrote a pathetic prologue and a witty epilogue.
3 And so much for the prologue to what I mean to say.
4 In typical fashion, Connel jumped to it without any idle conversational prologue .
5 But after all the prologue , the competition delivered plenty of action-packed drama.
6 Yet all this was only the prologue of the actual Dunwich horror.
7 I answered by humming half to myself the lines from the prologue , -
8 The personified Wisdom of Proverbs is the personal Word of John's prologue .
9 Foote refused to act this prologue , and said it was too strong.
10 All that is a kind of prologue to something more puzzling still.
11 This prologue will not, we are persuaded, be unacceptable to our readers.
12 Only take, for instance, the prologue to 'Every Man in his Humour.'
13 He says this expressly in the prologue to the second book:-
14 The prologue to the drama of the new thought was revolt against Aristotle.
15 Scott wrote a prologue and brought out the play in the Edinburgh Theatre.
16 The initial free release consists of the prologue through chapter five.
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