Chastity cleared her throat, a holdover from her days as a doctoral candidate at Radcliffe.  "As long as the original text's understandable, we don't need to add such traditional literary devices as rhythmic build, picaresque characters or peripeteia."

"Peripeteia?"

"'A sudden change of events or reversal of circumstances.'  It's from the Greek word 'peripiptein.'  Capiche?"

Daniel Asa Rose, from an article he wrote for Salon.