plot twist

See also: plottwist

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plot twist (plural plot twists)

  1. A change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot of a film, novel, or other narrative work.
    • 2014 March 27, Robin Marantz Henig, “Fictional Plotlines and Real Assisted Suicide”, in James Bennet, editor, The Atlantic‎[1], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 December 2025:
      It was daring of Lena Dunham, the show’s writer and creator, to introduce this particular plot twist. Assisted suicide is one of the subjects that American television shows steadily avoid.

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