Assertion: prologue | /r/CapableOf | serve as introduction
Facets:
value: very well
type: DEGREE
value: to a story
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to the tales
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Prologue serves as an introduction.
text: The main difference between preface and prologue is that preface serves as an introduction to the literary work whereas the prologue serves an introduction to the story in the literary work.
text: The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales acts as an explanation and an introduction to the Tales, and it allows Geoffrey Chaucer to arrange and establish the hierarchy of the pilgrims.
text: As an introduction to a story, a prologue can work very well.
text: The prologue also functions as an invocation — very similar to the style of invocation found in the great classic epics — in which the Prioress prays for help in narrating the greatness of the "blissful Queen" (the Virgin Mary).
text: Because of the ambitions of the playwright and the limitations of the Elizabethan stage, an introduction is in order and the Prologue serves as that introduction.
text: This is not to say that you can’t have a prologue to serve as an introduction.