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plot twist en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot of a film, novel, or other narrative work.
   • 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. 2014 March 27, Robin Marantz Henig, “Fictional Plotlines and Real Assisted Suicide”, in The Atlantic:

Forms

Deriveds

plot-twisty

Translations (27)

de Plottorsion (change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot) · fr retournement de situation (change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot) · ru поворо́т сюже́та (change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot) · ja プロットの再方向付け (change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot) · pt plot twist (change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot) · uk сюже́тний поворо́т (change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot) · de überraschende Wendung der Handlung (change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot) · nl plottwist (change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot) · pt reviravolta (change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot) · uk поворо́т сюже́ту (change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot) · fi juonenkäänne (change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot) · ko 작의 강선전도 (change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot) · es cambio de dirección del diagrama (change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot) · et sisupööre (change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot) · de unerwartete Wendung (change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot) · de Plottwist (change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot) · it colpo di scena (change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot) · fr coup de théâtre (change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot) · es giro (change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot) · cmn 劇情轉彎 /剧情转弯 (change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot) · fr rebondissement (change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot) · nl plotwending (change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot) · nl intrige (change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot) · el συστροφή πλοκών (change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot) · pl zwrot akcji (change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot) · ja プロットの捻れ (change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot) · nl verwikkeling (change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot)