"tomato surprise" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1974, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, volume 93, page 6:",
          "text": "[…] stories are written in the \"tomato surprise\" format: that is, the author saves the stunning surprise until the very last line of the story. It wasn't even a good technique when Verdi used it in Il Trovatore.",
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          "ref": "2020, Danielle Spencer, Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity, page 189:",
          "text": "There are several classic tomato surprises which editors see over and over: the one about the evil, horrid aliens that turn out in the last paragraph to be humans from earth; […]",
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        "A plot twist in which the reader or viewer is suddenly made aware of an important fundamental detail that changes the whole perspective of the story."
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "deus ex machina"
        }
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