epilogue
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- noun
- /ˈɛpɪˌlɔg/
- Literature
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epílogo
- Thus, instead of an artificial conclusion, I prefer to propose a brief epilogue and end with a question mark.
- prologue and epilogue
- a brief epilogue
- the epilogue to the story
If you don't read the epilogue, it's a standalone.
- If you don't read the epilogue, it's a standalone.
- And in case anyone didn't get the point, a Harvard man named Sewell wrote an epilogue to the play in which he spoke of our British Caesar.
- And particularly a trilogy which doesn't have an awful lot of epilogue once the final conflicts have been worked out.
- And he talks a little bit later about one big aspect of this, says in the this is in the epilogue.
- Another thing that's quite important that he brings up at the very end in the epilogue, he tells us the essentially human is passion.
- Spot on and then I suppose the other one is well, so this is this is and I mentioned this in the epilogue as well.
Examples
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There is a curious epilogue to the story of the Restatements.
Academic text (1998) -
To wrap these events together, the film's epilogue tells us what the leads accomplished after college.
Academic text (1997) -
You have to be willing, I guess, to really spend time in the epilogue of the experience.
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But what is my epilogue in all this amazing creative production adventure?
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Well, I may have left out the epilogue.
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I want to close by reading you a little vignette that I wrote as an epilogue to this episode.
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So this book, the American Rumor Experiment takes place sometime after the epilogue of the Spanish Love Deception.
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There is a perceptual fallacy here, which Tolstoy described very well in the epilogue to War and Peace.
Academic text (1993) -
Tolstoy discussed his views on cause and indeterminacy in history in two long epilogues to War and Peace.
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The novel ends with an epilogue that reflects on the main character's journey.
Synonyms
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The final part of something, like an event, story, or relationship
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The last part of an event, activity, or piece of writing
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Last part of a story or play that explains what happened
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A short part at the end of a piece of music that finishes the main theme
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A short statement of the main points at the end of a meeting or court case
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A short section at the end of a book with final comments by the author or another person
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A short summary that repeats the main points
A short part at the end of a book or play that finishes the story
A short section after the main performance that closes the show
How Conclusive
Surface Forms
Morphology
epilogue = prologue (semi-transparent) = epi + logue
Learners who know 'prologue' (a familiar -logue word) can infer 'epilogue' as an 'after' counterpart, but 'epi-' and '-logue' are non-native combining forms and not fully transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Epilogue comes from Greek parts epi- meaning 'after' and logos meaning 'word' or 'speech'. Think of it as the opposite of a prologue: an 'after-word' at the end of a book or play that wraps up the story or shows what happens later.