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What is the denouement in the plot of a fictional work?

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Denouement, (French: “unknotting”) conclusion after the climax of a narrative in which the complexities of the plot are unraveled and the conflict is finally resolved.

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The resolution of the plot of a literary work. The denouement of Hamlet takes place after the catastrophe, with the stage littered with corpses. During the denouement Fortinbras makes an entrance and a speech, and Horatio speaks his sweet lines in praise of Hamlet.

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