A peripeteia swiftly turns a routine sequence of events into a story worth telling.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

We were instructed that life, like Greek plays, features peripeteia, or reversals of fortune.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Prudence Was a Virtue] Reference

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 catharsis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Syria scrubs up so well] Reference

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 elaborate peripeteia.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Serpent!" screamed the Pigeon.] Reference

He destroys the wonderful peripeteia of the original story, jettisons the power of the over-the-top surreal insanity by bestowing it on a minor character, and replaces it all with a fatalistic conclusion to a psycho-drama.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dread] Reference

Levin (1929-2007), best known for his novels "Rosemary's Baby" (1967) and "The Stepford Wives" (1972), had obviously mastered the principles of Aristotle's "Poetics," for Deathtrap abounds in "peripeteia" or sudden reversals of fortune.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gothic Twist of an Intricate 'Deathtrap] Reference

Now then for anagnorisis, comic peripeteia, division into acts, and the rest of the wallet!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales] Reference

Then its high-priest, Govea, died; and, by a peripeteia too common in those days and countries, Buchanan and two of his friends migrated unwillingly from the Temple of the Muses for that of Moloch, and found themselves in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historical Lectures and Essays] Reference

A system as precise and strict has never been set up until now. peripeteia must be settled so quickly, it is still nothing more than the tip of the iceberg in the debt-deflation process about which I have harped more than Penelope has on her canvass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan Stocks News and Analysis from Seeking Alpha] Reference

9:25pi want to name my first daughter peripeteia. - 14 replies.    From Wordnik.com.  [mordicai] Reference

Aristotle's peripeteia, Jean.    From Wordnik.com.  [IRONY] Reference