13th March 2019 — Fletcher
Aristotle’s Poetics
1 – Exposition / protasis = introduction to the setting
2 – Inciting incident = The hook
3 – Rising action / epistasis = build up
4 – Climax – the big boy part
5 -Reversal / peripeteia – protagonist fortune changes from good to bad
6 – Hamartia = fatal flaw / misjudgement
7 – Hubris = pride, arrogance.
8 – Falling action / catastasis = follows climax
9 – catastrophe = a sudden event that usually comes with suffering
10 – denouement = conclusion of a plot
11 – recognition / anagnorisis = the change from ignorance to knowledge
12 – catharsis = the purification of emotions he process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions