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n. - A sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work).

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  • A peripeteia swiftly turns a routine sequence of events into a story worth telling
  • We were instructed that life, like Greek plays, features peripeteia, or reversals of fortune.
  • If the hammam were a Greek tragedy, and in some ways I think it is, this man's entry is the peripeteia, the moment of dramatic reversal that marks the beginning of...
  • I see what you're saying, but it certainly did cause me to reevaluate my initial impressions of the plot, which kinda-sorta feels like a twist, or at least some form of...
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