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Aristotle's Poetics Flashcards

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Imitation

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Objects we delight to contemplate when reproduced with minute fidelity

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Memorized quote

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Tragedy, then is an IMITATION of an ACTION that is SERIOUS, COMPLETE, and of a CERTAIN MAGNITUDE; In the form of ACTION, through PITY AND FEAR effecting the proper PURGATION of these emotions

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Action

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Plot, is the first principle, and soul of a tragedy

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Serious

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COMEDY aims as representing men as worse, TRAGEDY as better than in actual life

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Complete

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Beginning, middle, and end

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Certain magnitude

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Beauty depends on magnitude and order

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Unity of action

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Plot must imitate one action

Ex: finding killers of Laius

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Unity of time

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Confine itself to a single revolution of the sun

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Unity of place

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Follows the unity of time

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Pity and fear

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Pity is aroused by unmerited misfortune, fear by the misfortune of a man like ourselves

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Purgation or catharsis

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Cleansing of the emotions

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Tragic hero

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Man who is not good and just, yet whose misfortune is brought by some error or frailty

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Hamartia

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Tragic flaw, error in judgement

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Hubris

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Overweening pride

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Simple or complex

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Change is accompanied by reversal, recognition, or BOTH

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Reversal of the situation; peripetia

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Actions veers round to its opposite
Ex. Messenger comes to cheer Oedipus and free him from alarms about his mother, but reveals who Oedipus really is, and does the opposite

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Recognition

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Change from IGNORANCE to KNOWLEDGE

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Kinds of recognition

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Signs: scars on ankles
Process of reasoning: arises from incidents themselves where startling discovery is made by natural means
Ex: BETTER than it should be perpetuated in ignorance and the discovery made afterwards

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Scene of suffering

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Destructive or painful action

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Chorus

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Ideal spectators and part of the action

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Deus ex machina

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“God out of the machine”; irrational out of the plot

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