The classical unities of time, action, and place are derived from a passage in this work.
This work claims that for an artist to depict something impossible is an error that can be justified only if the resulting effect is more striking. It claims that a certain art form consists of complication and unraveling, and it uses similar passages from Aeschylus and Euripides to depict the drastic effects of changing one word. This work argues that characters must be good, proper, true to life, and consistent, and that is better for characters' (*) downfall not to be caused be vice but by error in judgment, or hamartia. It argues that dramatic poetry is a product of imitation, or mimesis. The classical unities of time, action, and place are derived from a passage in this work. This work claims that anagnorisis, or recognition, is key to the effect of tragedies in causing a purgation of emotions called catharsis. For 10 points, name this treatise on literary theory by Aristotle.
This work claims that for an artist to depict something impossible is an error that can be justified only if the resulting effect is more striking.
Poetics [or De Poetica]