What term denotes the resolution following the climax?

What term denotes the resolution following the climax?

• A. Stanza
• B. Denouement
• C. Acts
• D. Plot

Answer: (B)

Denouement denotes the resolution after the climax—the part where the story’s remaining questions are answered and the outcome for the characters is revealed. In traditional storytelling, the sequence goes from exposition to rising action up to the climax, and then into the denouement where tensions ease, subplots tie up, and any loose ends are resolved. This is different from a stanza, which is a poetry unit; from acts, which are large divisions in a play; and from plot, which is the overall sequence of events, not the concluding phase.

Denouement denotes the resolution after the climax—the part where the story’s remaining questions are answered and the outcome for the characters is revealed. In traditional storytelling, the sequence goes from exposition to rising action up to the climax, and then into the denouement where tensions ease, subplots tie up, and any loose ends are resolved. This is different from a stanza, which is a poetry unit; from acts, which are large divisions in a play; and from plot, which is the overall sequence of events, not the concluding phase.