plot twist

See also: plottwist

English

Noun

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 The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     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.

Translations

change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 劇情轉彎／剧情转弯 (jùqíng zhuǎnwān)

• Dutch: plotwending f, plottwist (nl) m, verwikkeling (nl) f, intrige (nl)
• Estonian: sisupööre
• Finnish: juonenkäänne
• French: rebondissement (fr) m, coup de théâtre (fr) m, retournement de situation m
• German: unerwartete Wendung f, überraschende Wendung der Handlung f, Plottorsion, Plottwist m
• Greek: συστροφή πλοκών (systrofí plokón)
• Italian: colpo di scena m
• Japanese: プロットの再方向付け (purotto no sai-hōkōzuke), プロットの捻れ (purotto no nejire)
• Korean: 작의 강선전도 (jagui gangseonjeondo)
• Polish: zwrot akcji m
• Russian: поворо́т сюже́та m (povorót sjužéta)
• Spanish: cambio de dirección del diagrama, giro (es) m
• Ukrainian: поворо́т сюже́ту m (povorót sjužétu), сюже́тний поворо́т m (sjužétnyj povorót)

Further reading

• plot twist on Wikipedia.Wikipedia