What's the difference between coda and denouement?

Coda


Definition:

  • (n.) A few measures added beyond the natural termination of a composition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) (Bolognesi, M., Coda, A., Frigerio, F., Gatti, C., Ascenzi, P., and Brunori, M. (1990) J. Mol.
  • (2) Beyond the director himself, the coda to the Clinton email inquiry has exposed the FBI as a politicized agency, a development with serious repercussions over the next several years.
  • (3) Following narrow defeat at the All England Club, Murray provided a glorious coda in the early hours of Tuesday morning with a US Open victory in his fifth grand slam final.
  • (4) Even the rabbis, though, fail to squeeze much in the way of laughs out of the coda to Noah's story.
  • (5) Treiman (1983) and others have argued that spoken syllables are best characterized not as linear strings of phonemes, but as hierarchically organized units consisting of an onset (initial consonant or consonant cluster) and a rime (the vowel and any following consonants) and that the rime is further divided into a peak or nucleus (the vowel) and a coda (the final consonants).
  • (6) It may feel a little like we have a reached a coda, but that is not the case.
  • (7) The present study employed a new computerized system, CODA-3, which locates small prismatic markers and computes by triangulation their three-dimensional position at 100 Hz.
  • (8) Roars appeared sonographically like prolonged barks composed of a pulsated preface, a long legato climax and a brief, fractionated and at times pulsated coda; each part varied internally to the ear and in acoustic structure.
  • (9) It made a colourful and pleasing coda to the sound and fury of new hardware doing battle.
  • (10) Though his heart's in the right place, connubially and ecologically, Walter is no less flawed than the other characters, and his fanatical campaign, in the novel's coda, to have his neighbours keep their cats indoors so as to save the local bird-life, is comic as well as sad.
  • (11) Pluto was demoted to a "dwarf planet" in 2006, but it continues to shine in concert halls where Matthews's beautifully crafted movement is frequently performed as a coda to Holst's work.
  • (12) Coda: today, economic security is something those under 20 cannot conceive of, like life before the internet.
  • (13) In the context of his career, his final weekend at Fenway is something of a coda.
  • (14) Although it is obviously unusual, Bishop is not the first to be posthumously nominated for the Costa awards, joining excellent company including Ted Hughes, who won book of the year for Birthday Letters in 1998 and Simon Gray, shortlisted in 2009 for his post-Smoking Diaries memoir, Coda.
  • (15) But in the Oslo Principles on Global Climate Change Obligations – launching in London today – a working group of current and ex-judges, advocates and professors, drawn from each region of the world, argue that any new international agreement will just be a coda to obligations already present, pressing and unavoidable in existing law.
  • (16) The treatment of Batmanghelidjh and Kids Company offers just as chilling a coda.
  • (17) A strange coda: suggestions of bad blood between the brothers ignore one extraordinary fact.
  • (18) The Inbetweeners Movie was originally planned as a coda to the third and last series on E4 in 2010.
  • (19) Soon to be published is Coda, which tells the story of his last months, and is, it is said, wonderful.
  • (20) The narratives were analyzed for the use of abstracts, orientations (background information), and codas.

Denouement


Definition:

  • (n.) The unraveling or discovery of a plot; the catastrophe, especially of a drama or a romance.
  • (n.) The solution of a mystery; issue; outcome.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some expected a grand finale, a denouement in which the problems raised by the ruling of the European court of justice against Google on the so-called “right to be forgotten” would be resolved.
  • (2) That Norwich now sit 14th in the Premier League, four points clear of the bottom three, underlines the difference that one good result can make as the season's denouement draws close.
  • (3) At the episode’s denouement, Pat discovers Katie’s doll behind a box of chocolates – it was there the whole time!
  • (4) A Brazilian World Cup that started amid fears over protests and corruption but became a paean to the best of international football concluded with a tense final and a dramatic denouement.
  • (5) Stories are not only a matter of plots, or of conclusions or denouements, any more than they are moral lessons or parables in fancy dress.
  • (6) Otherwise, the narrative will proceed to its inevitable denouement: a resounding Labour defeat in 2010.
  • (7) Diamé’s wonderful effort that curled into the top corner came after concerted pressure throughout this dramatic denouement to the Championship season.
  • (8) When Zidane retired from playing after leading France to the World Cup final in 2006 – player of the tournament in Germany despite his infamous denouement – the midfielder did not intend to move into coaching.
  • (9) The final denouement has just played out in the French Parliament with an announcement last week which makes specific reference to resistance in the South that all existing shale gas permits and authorisations have been annulled.
  • (10) In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the tragic denouement can be attributed directly to the consequences of the Great Plague.
  • (11) An amnesty, which does not have the support of the State Department, would represent a surprising denouement to an international drama that has lasted half a year .
  • (12) West Ham’s signing of the season provided the dramatic denouement.
  • (13) #birdsonaplane #starlingsindistress May 8, 2017 The farrago reached its denouement, according to Dolganov, when airport staff played a recording entitled “starlings in distress” to try to scare the bird away, but it was never found and the flight was cancelled.
  • (14) The first is Cyprus, where long-running, UN-brokered talks on reunification are inching towards some sort of denouement.
  • (15) People are quick to write off women’s sprinters but we have shown that we can peak on this stage and in front of a strong field.” There was a dramatic denouement, too, in the long jump, where England’s prospects had suffered the worst possible start.
  • (16) With over 400 invited race veterans in attendance for Sunday's denouement, there was one conspicuous absentee.
  • (17) Middlesbrough promoted to the Premier League: five things they must do now Read more That sending off left Chris Hughton’s side – who despite finishing level on points with Boro have a marginally inferior goal difference and must now face the dreaded play-off lottery – with nothing to lose and their desperate attacking urgency made for a tense denouement.
  • (18) And it reaches its usually unseen, often fatal denouement in the waters off northern Libya, as a growing number of refugees, asylum seekers and economic migrants desperately bids to reach Italy and Greece by sea.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘It was hard to see Laura cry’, says her mother – video Bassett and the rest of Sampson’s squad must travel back to London via Saturday’s third place playoff against Germany, while Japan will face USA in the following day’s denouement.
  • (20) "Tinker Tailor rubbish, all moody non-dialogue and twisty plot that you desperately follow and then the denouement is cos the baddies are idiots and say something stupid - what's the point of the clever twisty plot when the goodies don't have to unravel it?"

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