denouement
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Least Exciting Denouement: Bristol’s mom Sarah Palin cheers loudly when Mark is killed at the end of their paso doble.
From Time • Oct. 9, 2012
Denouement: the tent burning down, the heroine hanging by the ankles in midair, Cook rushing in to save her.
From Time Magazine Archive
Denouement: the husband learns the awful truth of the intrigue of which he has suspected his wife, and which, of course, was not an intrigue at all.
From Time Magazine Archive
By Complication I mean all from the beginning of the story to the point just before the change in the hero's fortunes; by Denouement, all from the beginning of the change to the end.
From Aristotle on the art of poetry by Bywater, Ingram
My book on playwriting divides plays into Introduction, Development, Crisis, Denouement and Catastrofe.
From Bab: a Sub-Deb by Rinehart, Mary Roberts
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