peripeteia

noun /pɛrəpɪtaɪə/ 5 syllables 10 letters Scrabble 14 WWF 16

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noun

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”

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