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denouement

The unravelling of the plot of a work of fiction. In a typical structure, the denouement would come just before the end, following the climax.

The detective story is a genre where the complication of plot usually needs a lengthy denouement, where all is explained to the reader.



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Every tragedy falls into two parts,--Complication and Unravelling or Denouement.
The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle View in context
But with the denouement of the scene he threw off all restraint, and laughed aloud.
Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
Her story was as full of desperation and despair as her limited acquaintance with those uncomfortable emotions enabled her to make it, and having located it in Lisbon, she wound up with an earthquake, as a striking and appropriate denouement.
Little Women by Alcott, Louisa May View in context
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