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Definition of Peripety
1. 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"
Definition of Peripety
1. Noun. (alternative form of peripeteia) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Peripety
1. a sudden change in a course of events [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peripety
Literary usage of Peripety
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Drama: A Quarterly Review of Dramatic Literature by Drama league of America (1912)
"Mr. Archer coins a word, peripety [Greek, peripeteia] for such a turning of the
tables, ... To the place in drama of the peripety he devotes a chapter. ..."
2. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1914)
"Nor is the more personal satire of the first act relinquished. Besides a travesty
of pedantic devices, such as exposition, peripety, climax, ..."
3. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1903)
"... which far less has hitherto been written, but whose story, though perhaps less
picturesque in its peripety, is in some respects even more instructive. ..."
4. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins (1820)
"... after the discovery that is made between Elect™ and Orestes, they still continue
in the same state, and there is no peripety, or change of fortune, ..."
5. Herodotus: the fourth, fifth, and sixth books by Herodotus, Reginald Walter Macan (1895)
"The peripety in his fortunes was less, probably in both directions, than the art
and moral of the story-tellers represent. Too much, 1 Accusatus ergo ..."
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