epilogue
noun
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From its Greek roots, epilogue means basically "words attached (at the end)". An epilogue often somehow wraps up a story's action, as in the one for a famous Shakespeare play that ends, "For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo". In nonfiction books, we now often use the term afterword instead of epilogue, just as we now generally use foreword instead of prologue. Movies also often have a kind of epilogue--maybe a scene after the exciting climax when the surviving lovers meet in a café to talk about their future. The epilogue of a musical composition, after all the drama is over, is called the coda (Italian for "tail").
Examples of epilogue in a Sentence
Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 23 Nov. 2024
But the finale’s boldest move comes in its epilogue.
—Noel Murray, Vulture, 17 July 2024
Jansson, whose early life was depicted in the 2020 Finnish biographical drama Tove, spent five months a year for three decades on the island with her life partner, who shot the 8mm home movies seen in an epilogue in that film and on the end credits here.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2024
Some have functioned as an epilogue or finale, others as backstory to the main plot—a kind of playable flashback—or even a commentary upon it.
—Gabriel Winslow-Yost, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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“Epilogue.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/epilogue. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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