epilogue
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a usually short section appended to the conclusion of a book or film.
The novel ends rather grimly, but the epilogue reveals that most of the characters go on to find fulfillment.
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a later event that illuminates or reinforces the significance of an earlier set of events.
The sad life of Tasso, the last great poet of the Italian Renaissance, was a fitting epilogue to the age, whose genius also declined into decadence.
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a speech, usually in verse, delivered by one of the actors after the conclusion of a play.
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the actor who delivers a play’s epilogue.
noun
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a speech, usually in verse, addressed to the audience by an actor at the end of a play
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the actor speaking this
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a short postscript to any literary work, such as a brief description of the fates of the characters in a novel
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(esp formerly) the concluding programme of the day on a radio or television station, often having a religious content
Other Word Forms
- epilogist noun
Etymology
Origin of epilogue
First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English epiloge, from Latin epilogus, from Greek epílogos “conclusion of a speech,” equivalent to epi- epi- + lógos “word”
Example Sentences
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But later, in a lengthy epilogue scene, Mike Wheeler takes us down another possibility - Eleven using Kali's illusion powers to make it seem as though she died before making a grand escape.
From BBC
The novel is divided into 15 books as well as an epilogue, which itself is split into two parts.
From BBC
The arresting arrival of spiritual transformation arrives in the epilogue.
From Los Angeles Times
In the end, Rountree wrote a short series on variations on two themes he extracted from the sketches that serve as an epilogue to the “MASS” suite.
From Los Angeles Times
An epilogue explains that Kerr paved the way for MMA to become a much bigger sport, but this seems like a weak rationale for a picture that seems to have little reason to exist.
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