(1) A sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work
(2) A sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work)
(1) 1936 is the peripeteia, the point where the action turned
(2) His intelligent cultivation and deferment of expectations through titles has built much of the resonance for this peripeteia by amplifying both the metaphorical and the mutual significance of what we have seen.
(3) It also stresses the revenger's isolation from the world and the peripeteia of his actions which always lead to his own destruction.
(4) But the music itself coursed with the language and logic of the underdog peripeteia at the last-second buzzer.
peripetia
peripety