PERIPETEIA as NOUN

  1. Meaning
    • a sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work)

    Synonym(s)
    Usage Example(s)
    • a peripeteia swiftly turns a routine sequence of events into a story worth telling

    Hypernyms(s) peripeteia is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower