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The quotation of a line, excerpt or poetry done at the beginning or (more rarely) at the ending of a work, segment or chapter. Frequent in [[Literature]], shows up occasionally otherwise.
In [[Speculative Fiction]], it is often used to do an [[Encyclopedia Exposita]]. Can also be used for an [[As the Good Book Says...]] effect. See also [[Pretentious Latin Motto]].
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== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
* Each chapter of ''[[Aeon Entelechy Evangelion (Fanfic)|Aeon Entelechy Evangelion]]'' starts with one.
* At the start of each chapter of ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero (Fanfic)|Kyon Big Damn Hero]]'' there are [[Encyclopedia Exposita|extracts of self-help books on being a hero, some poetry, or texts that are implied to be from future documents/books]].
* Each chapter of ''[[Tiberium Wars (Fanfic)|Tiberium Wars]]'' starts with a suitable quotation - most are from sources in-universe, but the very first is a famous line by Robert Heinlein about the importance of the military.
* Pretty much anything Abicion has written since he watched ''[[Transformers Dark of the Moon]]'' starts with one.
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** His "The Hollow Men", a ''shorter'' poem, not only has an epigraph, but ''the section in his Selected Poems containing only "The Hollow Men" has one as well''. If you look up "The Hollow Men" on the web you'll probably find the two given one after the other; they're ''both'' relevant to the poem's meaning.
* ''[[Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows]]'' quotes from [[Aeschylus]]'s ''Libation Bearers'' and Penn's ''Fruits of Solitude''.
* Each book of the ''[[Twilight (Literature)|Twilight]]'' series begins with a different quote. ''Twilight'' has [[As the Good Book Says...|the Bible]], ''New Moon'' has [[Romeo and Juliet]], and ''Eclipse'' has the [[Robert Frost]]'s poem "Fire and Ice."
* The chapters in Annie Dillard's ''The Writing Life'' each begin with an epigraph.
* The chapters in ''The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants'' begin with epigraphs.
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