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The unraveling or discovery of a plot; the catastrophe, especially of a drama or a romance.
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The solution of a mystery; issue; outcome.
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comes from a French word meaning unknotting or unraveling and refers the resolution of the plot usually at the end of a play or film
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The concluding scene of a play where the drama of the action gets resolved and brought to some sort of conclusion, happy or otherwise. Some playwrights deliberately avoid a traditional denouement, leaving the drama effectively open-ended.
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the final unraveling of the plot following the climax (same as resolution)
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(F), conclusion -- originally referring to the unraveling of plot.
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the final portion of Era Omega in which the new universal order is determined
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The final scene or scenes in a play devoted to tying up the loose ends after the climax (although the word originally meant "the untying").
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The slackening of tension after the climax at the end of the play or that portion of a plot that reveals the final outcome of its conflicts or the solution of its mysteries ( SS 555, SG 165).
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the outcome of a complex sequence of events
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the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work
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desenlace | dirge | double entendre | dramatic irony | dramatic monologue | dramatis personae | dumb show
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the resolution of the plot in fiction or drama (an “untying” of the complications at the end of the story line)
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Unravelling of a plot.
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French term meaning "unraveling" or "unknotting" used to describe the resolution of a PLOT following the climax.
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the winding up of the catastrophe of the plot.
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in a literary work, the final outcome or unraveling of the conflict.
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(DAY-noo-mahn), comes AFTER a climax. Is the final resolution or clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot. For more, see Mechanical Deck.
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See Resolution
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a final scene or cha[ter that explains mysteries and straightens out misunderstandings between characters and the author and reader. The word means "unknotting" in French.
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the final resolution to an intricate plot.
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French: a conclusion, outcome, or final solution.
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the final resolution or clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot; the events following the climax of a drama or novel in which such a resolution or clarification takes place
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the unraveling of the action; follows the climax or occurs simultaneously with it.
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The final outcome of the main dramatic event in a literary work.
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