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

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Florence Scovel Shinn