A denouement is the final part where everything is explained. A satisfying denouement, the denouement of the plot, a rushed denouement.
It comes after the climax rather than being it, which is the distinction critics keep, since the climax is the crisis and the denouement is the untangling. The French means an untying, from the knot of the plot.
1noundenouementThe final part where everything is explained.
“In the denouement, we finally learn who sent the letters and why.”
denouement is an ending.
French
dénouement — resolution
English
dénouement
English, today
denouement
dénouement French dénouement (“resolution”) literally “unknotting”.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA