peripety

Noun

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Noun (1)

  1. a sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work)“a peripeteia swiftly turns a routine sequence of events into a story worth telling”Synonyms: peripeteiaperipetiaType of surprise
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