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peripety
noun[ C ]
formaluk /pəˈrɪp.ə.ti/ us /pəˈrɪp.ə.t̬i/
a sudden and complete change in a situation, especially in a story:
It is a turning-point, a veritable moral peripety.
The plots were straightforward in structure, relating simple tales without peripeties, disguises, or mysteries.
The plots of the operas twisted through confusions, discoveries, and peripeties.
And then the peripety: the film is left in an archive and forgotten for half a century.
We spoke for two hours, about his childhood, the peripeties of living abroad, and his family's escape from Europe.
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