What Latin phrase is used to refer to a narrative technique in which an apparently insoluble issue is unexpectedly resolved by an unforeseen and improbable event?

The purpose of deus ex machina is often to settle an otherwise unresolvable narrative point, to surprise the audience, to bring the story to a joyful conclusion, or to serve as a comic device. It was a common theater technique used in the famous Ancient Greek tragedies.

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