LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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tragic flaw
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recognition
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tragic flaw
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reversal of fortune
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Detailed explanation-1: -anagnorisis, (Greek: “recognition”), in a literary work, the startling discovery that produces a change from ignorance to knowledge. It is discussed by Aristotle in the Poetics as an essential part of the plot of a tragedy, although anagnorisis occurs in comedy, epic, and, at a later date, the novel as well.
Detailed explanation-2: -: the point in the plot especially of a tragedy at which the protagonist recognizes his or her or some other character’s true identity or discovers the true nature of his or her own situation.
Detailed explanation-3: -In his Poetics, as part of his discussion of peripeteia, Aristotle defined anagnorisis as “a change from ignorance to knowledge, producing love or hate between the persons destined by the poet for good or bad fortune” (1452a).
Detailed explanation-4: -Aristotle defines recognition as “a change from ignorance to knowledge, disclosing either a close relationship or enmity, on the part of the people marked out for good or bad fortune” within a poem, particularly in a tragedy or epic poem.