Dictionary.com Word of the Day--peripateia

[Dave Monroe]

peripeteia
\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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