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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section III.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In poetry, what is the term that Aristotle gives for an action that aims to accomplish a certain goal, but actually accomplishes the opposite?
(a) Reversal of Situation.
(b) Irony.
(c) Tragedy.
(d) Failure.

2. The following is an example that Aristotle gives of what: a poet uses a general word to mean a more specific one?
(a) Vagueness.
(b) A metaphor.
(c) Bad poetry.
(d) Ineffective word use.

3. What type of action does Aristotle say occurs without "Recognition" or "Reversal of Situation"?
(a) Incongruent.
(b) Good.
(c) Simple.
(d) Sad.

4. Aristotle explains that tragedies should have what that other poems do not?
(a) Death.
(b) More sadness.
(c) More irony.
(d) A much more limited scale.

5. What type of words does Aristotle say are commonly used by a certain group of people?
(a) "Monosyllabic" words.
(b) "Current" words.
(c) "Futuristic" words.
(d) "Bad" words.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name that Aristotle uses for words that an audience may not understand?

2. Aristotle explains that the complication accomplishes what?

3. What does Aristotle identify as a poet's medium?

4. Aristotle gives the following as an example of what: Homer says that Odysseus accomplished a certain number of deeds?

5. How does Aristotle characterize tragedies with happy endings?

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