EXORDIUM  

PREFACE typically at the beginning of speech, introducing a text or speech without immediately entering into the subject.

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  • PREFACELITERARY GENRE in the form of a short text serving as an introduction to a much longer book or written/spoken text by someone else.
    • LITERARY GENRECulturally "Institutionalised" RHETORICAL DEVICE which consists in writing something consciously as belonging to a recognised literary genre or conventionally practised kind of document. These genres or text sorts constitute an evolving repertoire of available genres.
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