poetical justice

Etymology
From, ( – 1713) in the work The Tragedies of the Last Age Consider’d and Examin’d (1678): see the quotation.

Noun

 * 1)  The idea that in a literary work such as a poem, virtue should be rewarded and vice punished.

Translations

 * Finnish: runollinen oikeudenmukaisuus
 * Macedonian: