epilogue

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This "epilogue"--so the author calls it--has been denounced as a concession to popular sentimentality, and an unpardonable anticlimax.

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  1. noun A short poem or speech spoken directly to the audience following the conclusion of a play.
  2. noun The performer who delivers such a short poem or speech.
  3. noun A short addition or concluding section at the end of a literary work, often dealing with the future of its characters. Also called afterword.

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  • In truth, the events of March, 1815, may be called the epilogue of the revolutionary drama. —  The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2)
  • You can almost hear the political wheels grind to a start in the epilogue -- and you can probably begin to take bets as to who gets crushed by them. —  EBSCOhost
  • In the mischievous epilogue, our TV heroes casually ponder their options for a regular series. —  BlackStaticHorrorMagazine#1
  • I thank you sincerely for your epilogue, which, however, could not be used, but with your permission shall be printed. —  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Prologue and epilogue, and then the story is in the middle. —  Sock
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  1. Middle English epiloge, from Old French epilogue, from Latin epilogus, from Greek epilogos, conclusion of a speech : epi-, epi- + logos, word, speech; see leg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Dutch epiloog = German epilog = Danish Swedish epilog, from French épilogue = Spanish epilogo = Portuguese Italian epilogo, from Latin epilogus, from Greek ἐπίλογος, a conclusion, peroration of a speech, epilogue of a play, from ἐπιλέγειν, say in addition, from ἐπί, in addition, + λέγειν, say.
  2. from epilogue, n.
 

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