peripeteia

Noun

Meaning

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

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Synonyms

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Hypernyms

surprise

Examples

a peripeteia swiftly turns a routine sequence of events into a story worth telling Source: Internet

Theories Aristotle further Aristotle wrote in his work Poetics that tragedy is characterized by seriousness and involves a great person who experiences a reversal of fortune ( Peripeteia ). Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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