volte face

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See also: volte-face

English

Etymology

From the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin meaning literally about face.

Noun

A dramatic change in mood or tone, commonly in poetry.
Shakespeare often used volte faces in the rhyming couplets at the end of his sonnets.

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