English Language · English Literature

Arrange the following statements chronologically in order of their appearance in Aristotle's 'Poetics': A. The plot is 'the end at which tragedy aims'. B. Regarding the Plot, 'A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end'. C. The plot of the tragedy should have a Unity: 'the component incidents must be so arranged that if one of them be transposed or removed, the unity of the whole is dislocated and destroyed'. D. The character in question must occupy a mean between these extremes: he must be a man 'who is not pre-eminently virtuous and just, and yet it is through no badness or villainy of his own that he falls into the misfortune, but rather through some flaw in him'. E. The function of the poet is to narrate 'events such as might occur... in accordance with the laws of probability or necessity'. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: