epilogue

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. In rhetoric, the conclusion or closing part of a discourse or oration; the peroration. The office of the epilogue is not merely to avoid an abrupt close and provide a formal termination, but to confirm and increase the effect of what has been said, and leave the hearer as favorably disposed as possible to the speaker's cause and unfavorably to that of his opponents. Accordingly, an epilogue in its more complete form consists of two divisions— a repetition of the principal points previously treated, and
2. n. In dramatic or narrative writing, a concluding address; a winding up of the subject; specifically, in spoken dramas, a closing piece or speech, usually in verse, addressed by one or more of the performers to the audience.
3. To epilogize.

Wiktionary

1. n. A short speech, spoken directly at the audience at the end of a play
2. n. The performer who gives this speech
3. n. A brief oration or script at the end of a literary piece; an afterword
4. n. computing A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to return from a routine.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Drama) A speech or short poem addressed to the spectators and recited by one of the actors, after the conclusion of the play.
2. n. (Rhet.) The closing part of a discourse, in which the principal matters are recapitulated; a conclusion.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play
2. n. a short passage added at the end of a literary work