peripeteia

Besides which, the most powerful elements of emotional: interest in Tragedy Peripeteia or Reversal of the Situation, and Recognition scenes--are parts of the plot.

The word is 'peripeteia,' popular in Greek tragedies where the protagonist undergoes a reversal of fortune from state of happiness and contentment toward a catastrophic ending.

A Periphrasis B Peripeteia C Phoneme D Pleonasm 11.

First, after admitting his incurable addiction to genre fiction, he states that 'characters are not changed' (33) unless they undergo the peripeteia of reversal: in the twinkling of an eye, innocence becomes suspected or real guilt, or vice versa.

Indeed, her meeting with Westervelt, the romance's peripeteia, precipitates a crisis that sets in motion the trajectory to her death.

Murray writes that the course of reversal, of peripeteia, is necessarily from "grief to joy," and that the purpose of ritual and tragedy is theophany, the celebration of the eternal life of Dionysus or his double (Harrison [1912] 1963: 344).

This structure will attempt to explain metatheatre in the film, taking the characters-as-actors' peripeteia in this microcosm as a departure point, and then opening the scope of the commentary up to larger themes, resituating metatheatricality as a peephole through which to explore the context, reception and production circumstances of the film.

In the letter he never receives, she also situates their story in that genre, describing her concealment of their daughter as "a lie [...] appropriate to a Romance" (543) and reflecting, "You will think [...] that a romancer such as I [...] would not be able to keep such a secret for nigh on thirty years [...] without bringing about some peripeteia, some denouement, some secret hinting or open scene of revelation" (544-45).

Both rely on plot twists of the sort identified by Aristotle as peripeteia (reversal) and anagnorisis (recognition).

The plot is unified in that each of the actions proceeds in a necessary and probable order, leading--in a complex plot--to a reversal (peripeteia, where the hero expects one thing but circumstances prove otherwise) and a recognition (anagnorisis, a change from ignorance to knowledge) that, at the end, "effect through pity and fear the purification [katharsis] of such emotions" (Aristotle 10).