2 example sentences using peripeteia.

Peripeteia used in a sentence

Peripeteia in a sentence as a noun

The woman in this essay is having her moment of peripeteia. It’s just bits in a database.

As a greek person, for whom the word 'peripeteia' is totally mundane, I was very suprised to see it used in English in such a literary fashion. Thanks for that!

Peripeteia definitions

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"

See also: peripetia peripety