foreword, afterword, epigraph, paraphrasing, treatise, book, prefatory, subtitle, postscript, panegyric, rainer maria rilke, preamble, excerpt, epistle, apologia, essay, verse, monograph, epilogue, exegesis, foreward, poem, rereading, biography, blurb, dorothy sayers, hannah arendt, ford madox ford, autobiography, headnote, gustave flaubert, flyleaf, critique, prose poem, precis, tome, archibald macleish, haggada, memoir, endnote, compendious, memoires, quote, polemic, ecclesiasticus, william hazlitt, italics, hilaire belloc, haggadah, summation, sonnet, pentateuch, bhagavad gita, percy bysshe shelley, epigram, aeneid, peroration, herman wouk, annotator, ashbery, edward gibbon, marginalia, stephen spender, prose, declarative sentence, flaubert, paragraph, explications, excursus, bibliography, typescript, arnold toynbee, rebuttal, refutation, passages, subjunctive mood, nancy mitford, narrator, vladimir nabokov, fyodor dostoyevsky, tractate, gist, delphic, festschrift, hagiography, reinhold niebuhr, ungrammatically, tacitus, addendum, manuscript, lionel trilling, digression, tanakh, andre gide, anthologist, quatrains, novelette, magnum opus, anthology, catullus, footnote, thomas malory, prefaces, prologue, article, dissertation, letter, pamphlet, introduction, commentary, epitaph, contents, history, part, eighteenth, remarks, twentieth, nineteenth, geography, literature, summary, beset, harvard, pack, seventeenth, supplement

prologize

introduce, introductory, now, precede, prefatorial, prefatory, premise

text, textual matter

say, state, tell

prolusion