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Defenition of the word peripetia

    • Defenition of the word peripetia

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

    Hypernyms for the word peripetia

      • surprise

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