epilogue
epilogues
If you like to read the end of a book first, then maybe the epilogue is for you. The epilogue is a short piece that wraps up the end of a story.
The noun epilogue can also refer to the short speech at the end of a play that one of the characters speaks directly to the audience. In Shakespeare's play The Tempest, the epilogue is a 20-line monologue spoken by Prospero. Epilogue comes from the Greek word epilogus meaning the conclusion of a speech.
Definitions of epilogue
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a short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play
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a short section added at the end of a literary work
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