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What does epilogue mean?

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  1. A short speech, spoken directly at the audience at the end of a play
  2. The performer who gives this speech
  3. A brief oration or script at the end of a literary piece; an afterword
  4. (computing) A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to return from a routine.
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This novel consists of three primary sections that are framed by a prologue and an epilogue.
Like a funeral, an epilogue mitigates an annihilating ending with deliquescent anticlimax.
He leaves the house with the curse of his father, but in the epilogue to the play, his family accepts his decision.
This prologue masquerading as an epilogue does not provide the expected closure, but instead another opening into the text.
An epilogue wonders anxiously how the audience have liked the play, assuring them it was intended only to please.
I always had an epilogue to the book, but originally it was my own epilogue.

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