epilogue

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a concluding section added to a literary work that comments on or reveals what happens after the main narrative

   The novel's epilogue follows the family twenty years after the final chapter.

2. 2
   noun

   a short speech addressed to the audience at the end of a play

   In the epilogue, the actor stepped forward and asked the audience for its applause.

From French epilogue and Latin epilogus, from Ancient Greek epilogos ("conclusion of a speech"), formed from epi- ("in addition") + logos ("word, speech"). The term moved from classical rhetoric to the closing speech of a drama and then to the concluding section of a narrative.

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