peripeteia
Noun
Meaning
a sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work)
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development
design
action
color
device
architecture
atmosphere
background
angle
argument
bomb
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continuity
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a peripeteia swiftly turns a routine sequence of events into a story worth telling
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 ).