The purpose of a prologue

Filed under Trends & Tropes on January 9, 2007
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Prologues are developing into a pet peeve of mine. I’m reading Knife of Dreams, and Jordan once again starts off with a 100-page prologue. Why wasn’t this a chapter?
Somewhere along the line, I came up with a pretty specific definition of what a prologue was. It is not based on any dictionary definition, as the [...]