epilogue

A short final section of a book that adds information after the main story.

• The book has a short epilogue.
• An epilogue reveals what happens ten years later.
• Did you read the epilogue after the final chapter?

Similar words: afterword

Opposites: prologue

Common phrases: short epilogue, novel’s epilogue, in the epilogue

A short speech to the audience at the end of a play.

• The actor delivered the epilogue.
• In the epilogue, she spoke directly to the audience.
• The play’s epilogue thanked everyone for watching.

Similar words: closing speech

Opposites: prologue

Common phrases: deliver an epilogue, play’s epilogue, closing epilogue

The performer who speaks to the audience at the end of a play.

• The epilogue stepped onto the stage.
• They chose a young actor as the epilogue.
• After speaking, the epilogue bowed to the audience.

Similar words: closing speaker

Common phrases: the play’s epilogue, act as epilogue

Instructions at the end of a computer routine that prepare it to return to the calling code.

• The epilogue restores the saved registers.
• The compiler added an epilogue before the return instruction.
• We checked the function’s epilogue for stack errors.

Opposites: prologue

Common phrases: function epilogue, routine epilogue, generate an epilogue

To finish a work with a short extra section or closing speech.

• The author chose to epilogue his story.
• She epilogued the play with a brief farewell.
• He will epilogue the book with a final reflection.

How to use it: epilogue something with something (She epilogued the novel with a letter from its heroine.)

Common phrases: epilogue a novel, epilogue with something