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prologue

noun

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An introductory section preceding the main action or text.

The prologue explains why the narrator returns to the island.

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A student theater group created a short play about a fictional railway waiting room on its final evening of use. The prologue introduced a traveler reading an old note left inside a borrowed book, a poignant moment that connected an ordinary object with an absent friend.

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