denouement (n.)

• accomplishment
• action
• angle
• answer
• architectonics
• architecture
• argument
• atmosphere
• background
• catastrophe
• cessation
• characterization
• climax
• coda
• color
• completion
• complication
• conclusion
• consummation
• continuity
• contrivance
• cracking
• culmination
• curtain
• death
• decease
• decipherment
• decoding
• design
• destination
• destiny
• determination
• development
• device
• disentanglement
• doom
• effect
• end
• ending
• envoi
• epilogue
• episode
• eschatology
• expiration
• explanation
• fable
• fate
• finale
• finality
• finding
• finis
• finish
• gimmick
• goal
• incident
• interpretation
• issue
• izzard
• last
• line
• mood
• motif
• movement
• omega
• outcome
• payoff
• period
• peripeteia
• peroration
• plan
• plot
• quietus
• reason
• recognition
• resolution
• resolving
• result
• scheme
• slant
• solution
• solving
• stoppage
• story
• structure
• subject
• switch
• term
• terminal
• termination
• terminus
• theme
• tone
• topic
• twist
• untangling
• upshot
• windup
• working