Afterword

As an epilogue, defamation, concluding remarks, closing remarks or epilogue (Greek επίλογος Epilogos, with epi, then reenacted ' and logos, the word ' ) refers to closing remarks at the end of a literary or rhetorical work. The epilogue can also stand at the end of each chapter.

As the preface ( Prologue ) is the epilogue within the meaning of the word escort at a lecture or a book as an aid to understanding, interpretation, statement of intention or dedication. The final words are particularly in dramatic works are common and usually express thoughts of the poet or answer questions that are left open in the book or in the play, or enter " the moral of the story".

In another sense, it uses the concept of the epilogue, when one understands the versified speech, which is, caused not by the piece itself, but by some external cause, directed after the end of a play to the audience, so as Extempore. In this sense Goethe called his poem in honor of his deceased friend Schiller an epilogue to Schiller's bell.

To be distinguished is the epilogue serves as epilogue from injury as a literary form in the drama, which is a disjointed enclosed edifying small business and originally the pastime to leave the theater after the end of the play. Mutatis mutandis similar to the epilogue is the closing credits for film works.