{"id":"poetics","title":"Plot construction in Poetics","summary":"Aristotle examines the arrangement of events and connections between actions as central subjects of narrative analysis in tragedy.","concepts":["Event arrangement: how events form a whole action","Probability and necessity: intelligible links between events","Reversal and recognition: changes in circumstances or understanding"],"application":"Use this perspective to examine whether removing or reordering a scene changes the causal structure of a story.","limitations":"The theory centers on ancient tragedy. It does not require the same structure across every culture, genre or experimental narrative.","directions":["Causality: make event connections and reversals clear.","Formal experiment: consider deliberate discontinuity and space for reader interpretation."],"category":"Writing and publishing","kind":"theory","kind_label":"Theory","persona_ids":["novelist"],"revision":1,"updated_at":"2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z","sources":[{"title":"The Poetics of Aristotle","url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1974/pg1974-images.html","publisher":"Aristotle · S. H. Butcher translation · Project Gutenberg","edition":"Public English translation of a classical work","region":"Primarily ancient Greek tragedy","checked_at":"2026-10-07","reuse":"Independent editorial summary and source link; the original text is not republished."}],"review":{"status":"source-checked-editorial","expert_reviewed":false},"editorial_note":"Editorial English translation of the Korean edition. No professional translation or occupational expert review has been completed. Translation does not change the source jurisdiction.","language":"en","translation":{"status":"current","source_language":"ko","source_version":"kb-955a30b06999e418","translated_at":"2026-10-08","professional_reviewed":false},"trust":"reference-data","version":"kb-6595e0a7ffcaa7b7","links":{"document":"/en/knowledge/poetics","markdown":"/en/knowledge/poetics.md","api":"/api/v1/knowledge/poetics?lang=en"}}