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 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
Denouement: the tent burning down, the heroine hanging by the ankles in midair, Cook rushing in to save her.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every tragedy is in part Complication and in part Denouement; the incidents before the opening scene, and often certain also of those within the play, forming the Complication; and the rest the Denouement.
From Aristotle on the art of poetry by Bywater, Ingram
Every tragedy falls into two parts,—Complication and Unravelling or Denouement.
From The Poetics of Aristotle by Butcher, S. H. (Samuel Henry)
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