| \per-uh-pi-TAHY-uh, -TEE-uh\ |
noun
1. a sudden turn of events or an unexpected reversal, especially in a literary work. |
| Quotes |
I fixed my eyes on a hawk slicing across the pristine sky and waited for the peripeteia. "Victoria got remarried," Jack finally said.
-- Rex Pickett, Sideways, 2004 |
| Origin |
| Peripeteia entered English in the late 1500s from the Greek word peripéteia, also meaning "sudden change." The Greek root peripetḗs literally means “falling around.” |
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