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'Recognition' (anagnorisis), per Aristotle, is:
AA change from ignorance to knowledge
BA change of costume
CAn interlude between acts
DA musical refrain
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. A change from ignorance to knowledge
1. Anagnorisis names the protagonist's shift from not-knowing to knowing.
2. Often the discovered fact is kinship or guilt.
3. The text gives the canonical formula directly.
_Source: Project Gutenberg #1974 — Aristotle's Poetics — "Recognition, as the name indicates, is a change from ignorance to knowledge"_
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