prefaces
Books' introductory sections
Prefaces is the plural of preface, an introductory section at the beginning of a book where the author explains the work's purpose, scope, or origins: The prefaces to his novels reveal more about his thinking than the novels themselves.
To preface something is to introduce it with preliminary remarks: She prefaced her criticism with a compliment.
Introductory book section
- prologueIntroductory literary section
- preamblePreliminary statement before content
- introductionPreliminary section or presentation
- author's noteWriter's direct address to readers
acknowledgments · dedication · epigraph · proem · exordium · frontmatter · prelude · overture
Comes before temporally
- sets upPrepares or establishes
- opensAllows passage through
- beginsStarts to happen
- ushers inIntroduces or initiates
heralds · announces · foreshadows · prepares · establishes · frames · contextualizes · inaugurates
foreword
Introductory book section
- prologueIntroductory literary section
- preamblePreliminary statement before content
- introductionPreliminary section or presentation
author's note · acknowledgments · dedication · epigraph · proem · exordium · frontmatter · prelude · overture · frontispiece
precedes
Comes before temporally
ushers in · heralds · announces · foreshadows · prepares · establishes · frames · contextualizes · inaugurates · launches
disclaims
Denies connection or responsibility
- hedgesPlanted boundary lines
- caveatsCautionary stipulations attached
- conditionsPrevailing state of affairs
qualifies · tempers · moderates · contextualizes · frames · prepares · softens · cushions · buffers
- classical Chinese prosehistorical records, political essays, discourses, memorials, edicts
- literary formsnovel, novels, novella, poetry, poetry collections
- publishingpublishers, editors, editor, publishing house, books
- written worksessay, novel, anthologies, history books, letter
- openersbottle opener, can opener, corkscrew, church key, churchkey
- ShawPygmalion, Saint Joan, Geneva, Eliza Doolittle, Henry Higgins
prefacesepilogues
Concluding sections of works
afterwords · conclusions · postscripts · appendices · codas
prefacesepilogues
Concluding sections of works
codas · finales · denouements · closings · conclusions