ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

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: -Anagnorisis (Recognition) is a change from ignorance to knowledge, leading either to friendship or to hostility on the part of those persons who are marked for good fortune or bad. Hamartia is a mistake or error of judgment, sometimes translated as “tragic flaw” – but for Aristotle it is not a moral defect.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -The word “anagnorisis” is a translation of a Greek word meaning “recognition.” Aristotle was the first to use this term in his book on dramatic theory, Poetics (circa 330 BCE). Aristotle described anagnorisis as an essential element of a complex plot with a character transitioning from ignorance to knowledge.

Detailed explanation-5: -Aristotle defines reversal as “a change to the opposite in the actions being performed” that occurs in accordance with necessity or probability. In other words, it refers to the kind of plot twist where things seem to be going one way but then go in the opposite direction.