peripeteia

But Theodore Kremer, who very possibly never heard of peripety, would do exactly the same thing.

In the third act of Othello we have a peripety handled with consummate theatrical skill.

When a pupil brings in a play in favor of polygamy, Baker declines to argue but talks instead about peripety.

Two parts of the Plot, then, Peripety and Discovery, are on matters of this sort.