Poetics
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Plot, Character, Diction, Thought, Spectacle, Song.
Shriya
Muthos, Ethos, Dianoia, Lexis, Melopoiia, Opsis
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The Plot, then, is the first principle, and, as it were, the soul of a tragedy: Character holds the second place.
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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, showing what kind of things a man chooses or avoids. Speeches, therefore, which do not make this manifest, or in which the speaker does not choose or avoid anything whatever, are not expressive of character.
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Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular.
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The change of fortune should be not from bad to good, but, reversely, from good to bad. It should come about as the result not of vice, but of some great error or frailty, in a character either such as we have described, or better rather than worse.
Shriya
Hamartia
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Letter is an indivisible sound, yet not every such sound, but only one which can form part of a group of sounds.