opening pages
- prologueIntroductory literary section
- prefaceIntroductory book section
- introductionPreliminary section or presentation
- forewordIntroductory book section
- titleFormal honorific or name
cover · beginning · first · chapter · dedication · contents · epigraph · manuscript · novel · book · reader · story · hook · premise · setting · characters · narrative · blank
position in document
opening pagesback pages
Concluding sections of print
final chapter · last chapter · back matter · afterword · postscript
narrative function
opening pagesdenouement
Story's final unraveling
conclusion · resolution · finale · climax · ending