peripeteia

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peripeteia (enc)

Noun

peripeteia - 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"

peripetia, peripety

surprise - a sudden unexpected event

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