Associations to the word «Peripety»

Wiktionary

PERIPETY, noun. Alternative form of peripeteia

Dictionary definition

PERIPETY, noun. 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".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne