last act
Drama's final segment
The last act is the final section of a play, opera, or other dramatic performance—the part where conflicts resolve and the story concludes.
Figuratively, a last act is someone's final effort or phase before retirement, death, or departure: His presidency's last act was a sweeping pardon.
The phrase often carries a sense of culmination or legacy.
- epilogueConcluding literary section
- finaleConcluding part of performance
- denouementStory's final unraveling
- closing sceneFinal segment of production
- endgameConcluding phase of competition
conclusion · farewell · culmination · curtain call · final bow · finishing touch · swan song · bitter end · capstone · resolution · wrap-up · death knell · closure · climax · valediction · closing ceremony · ultimate sacrifice · death scene
- endingsending, the end, finish, close, final
- swan songsswan song, final performance, farewell concert, farewell tour, final bow
- finalesfinale, grand finale, final curtain, curtain call, final bow
- closersdoor closer, zipper, lid, cork, cap
- top it offcap, crown, finish, complete, wrap up
last actfirst act
Initial division of drama
opening act · act one · opening scene · prologue · curtain raiser
last actbeginning
Initial stage of something
setup · introduction · rising action · inciting incident · exposition
last actfirst act
Initial division of drama
opening act · opening chapter · beginning · debut · starting point
act, last, lasting, actor, acting, actress, everlasting, acted, activate