07298715-n 'a sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work)';
 
Chinese (simplified) 突变
English peripeteia , peripetia , peripety
Italian peripezia
Definitions
English
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
Japanese
運勢の突然で予想外の変化、または状況の反転(特に文芸作品で)
Relations
Hypernym: surprise
Semantic Field: eventn
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