Prologue
Opening to a story that establishes the setting and gives background details / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the narrative device. For the compilation-related term, see function prologue. For the computer programming language, see Prolog. For other uses, see Prologue (disambiguation).
A prologue or prolog (from Greek πρόλογος prólogos, from πρό pró, "before" and λόγος lógos, "word") is an opening to a story that establishes the context and gives background details, often some earlier story that ties into the main one, and other miscellaneous information. The Ancient Greek word πρόλογος includes the modern meaning of prologue, but was of wider significance, more like the meaning of preface. The importance, therefore, of the prologue in Greek drama was very great; it sometimes almost took the place of a romance, to which, or to an episode in which, the play itself succeeded.