plot twist
noun1
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:
- Derived terms
- plot-twisty