Epilogue
noun
A section at the end of a book or play that serves as a comment on or a conclusion to what has happened.
In the epilogue of the novel, we learn what happens to the main characters.
Often appears as...
- write an epilogue
- read the epilogue
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Literary
noun
A section at the end of a book or play that serves as a comment on or a conclusion to what has happened.
In the epilogue of the novel, we learn what happens to the main characters.
Often appears as...
- write an epilogue
- read the epilogue
Usage tips
Literary
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Pro Tip 1/3Narrative Closure
An epilogue provides closure, revealing the fate of characters after the main story ends.
The epilogue showed the hero living peacefully years later.
Pro Tip 2/3Future Glimpse
Epilogues often skip forward in time to show future events or outcomes of the story.
In the epilogue, their children continued the legacy.
Pro Tip 3/3Reflective Tone
The tone of an epilogue is usually more reflective or informative, differentiating it from other chapters.
The epilogue reflected on the lessons learned.
Pro Tip 1/3Narrative Closure
An epilogue provides closure, revealing the fate of characters after the main story ends.
The epilogue showed the hero living peacefully years later.
Pro Tip 2/3Future Glimpse
Epilogues often skip forward in time to show future events or outcomes of the story.
In the epilogue, their children continued the legacy.
Pro Tip 3/3Reflective Tone
The tone of an epilogue is usually more reflective or informative, differentiating it from other chapters.
The epilogue reflected on the lessons learned.
Pro Tip 1/3Narrative Closure
An epilogue provides closure, revealing the fate of characters after the main story ends.
The epilogue showed the hero living peacefully years later.
Pro Tip 2/3Future Glimpse
Epilogues often skip forward in time to show future events or outcomes of the story.
In the epilogue, their children continued the legacy.
Pro Tip 3/3Reflective Tone
The tone of an epilogue is usually more reflective or informative, differentiating it from other chapters.
The epilogue reflected on the lessons learned.
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that I had covered a year earlier, and I had this notion that I might enter it, sort of as an experiment in participatory journalism. It'd make, I thought, maybe a nice epilogue to all my research. Problem was, the experiment went haywire. I won the contest --
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Electric Vocabulary
where our story began. However, there's an epilogue to this tale. It was discovered that these electrons flow in the opposite direction to what Franklin supposed. Therefore, objects that are positively charged don't have an excess of electrical fluid,
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Feats of memory anyone...
that I had covered a year earlier, and I had this notion that I might enter it, sort of as an experiment in participatory journalism. It'd make, I thought, maybe a nice epilogue to all my research. Problem was, the experiment went haywire. I won the contest --
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Electric Vocabulary
where our story began. However, there's an epilogue to this tale. It was discovered that these electrons flow in the opposite direction to what Franklin supposed. Therefore, objects that are positively charged don't have an excess of electrical fluid,
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Nancy Kress
American Writer
A true epilogue is removed from the story in time or space. That's the reason it is called an 'Epilogue'; the label serves to alert the reader that the story itself is over, but we are going to now see a distant result or consequence of that story.
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John Irving
American Novelist
Titles are important; I have them before I have books that belong to them. I have last chapters in my mind before I see first chapters, too. I usually begin with endings, with a sense of aftermath, of dust settling, of epilogue.
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Sarah MacLean
American Author
In seven books, I've written my fair share of baby epilogues. Pregnancies and births and even grandchildren have made an appearance in the final pages of my books.
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Diana Gabaldon
American Author
I write where I can see things happen, and then things get glued together. I do have the final scene, but that really is an epilogue. It's not part of the plot.
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Nancy Kress
American Writer
A true epilogue is removed from the story in time or space. That's the reason it is called an 'Epilogue'; the label serves to alert the reader that the story itself is over, but we are going to now see a distant result or consequence of that story.
Quote examples
John Irving
American Novelist
Titles are important; I have them before I have books that belong to them. I have last chapters in my mind before I see first chapters, too. I usually begin with endings, with a sense of aftermath, of dust settling, of epilogue.
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Sarah MacLean
American Author
In seven books, I've written my fair share of baby epilogues. Pregnancies and births and even grandchildren have made an appearance in the final pages of my books.
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Diana Gabaldon
American Author
I write where I can see things happen, and then things get glued together. I do have the final scene, but that really is an epilogue. It's not part of the plot.
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