SAT vocabulary
Peripeteia
A sudden, dramatic reversal of circumstances, especially in a literary or real-life narrative.
Example
"The detective's discovery of the forged ledger provided the classic peripeteia that unmasked the true culprit."
Etymology
From Greek peripeteia ('sudden change, turnabout'), from peripiptein ('to fall around, turn out').
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