Afterword é um sinônimo de epilogue — ou seja, uma adição curta ou uma seção concludente no final de uma obra literária.
Exemplos
CC Sabathia threw about 30 pitches of live batting practice this morning and reported afterward that all went well … [LoHud Yankees Blog]
Each book’s photos are accompanied by text from the subjects, with Elton John providing an intro and Kylie Minogue an afterword to the Shears book. [Dallas Voice]
Bill will also be on hand afterward to discuss ways to improve cycling in the community [letter to The Carrboro Citizen]
In the afterword to the 2004 edition of the novel, Donna Tartt calls the book “a masterpiece.” [National Post]
Rates would rise 8.2 percent again in mid-2012, and then 4.6 percent in each of the three years afterward. [Arizona Daily Star]
The book concludes with a lengthy afterword from Lessing in which she discusses the influence of Robert Scott’s doomed expedition to the South Pole on both this volume and The Sirian Experiments. [Locus Online]
