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Aristotle's principle that a plot 'must imitate one action and that a whole' names which classical 'unity'?
AUnity of Place
BUnity of Time
CUnity of Action
DUnity of Tone
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Unity of Action
1. The 'unity of action' is Aristotle's chief structural principle.
2. Unity of Time and Place were neoclassical extensions, not Aristotelian originals.
3. The test: removing any part disjoints the whole.
_Source: Project Gutenberg #1974 — Aristotle's Poetics — "a plot must imitate one action and that a whole"_
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