cliffhanger

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noun

Plural noun:

cliffhangerscliff hangercliff-hanger

1.
(narratology) An ending or stopping point calculated to leave a story unresolved, in order to create suspense.
2.
(broadly)(by extension) An outcome which is awaited with keen anticipation, especially one which is delayed for a period of time or which is not known until the last minute.

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anticlimax

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Nguồn gốc từ

From cliff + hanger, evoking the image of someone left hanging from a cliff, thereby having an uncertain fate. The term cliffhanger is considered to have originated with the serialized version of Thomas Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes, published in Tinsley's Magazine in the 1870s, in which the character Henry Knight is left hanging off of a cliff.