Discovery, in literature, is a character's learning information that he had previously been ignorant of, when the learning is crucial to the plot.
Aristotle defined it in his Poetics as "a change from ignorance to knowledge, producing love or hate between the persons destined by the poet for good or bad fortune." He considered it, with peripeteia, the mark of a superior tragedy, having a complex plot, as when Oepidus killed his father and married his mother in ignorance, and later learned the truth, or when Iphigenia in Tauris realizes that the strangers she is to sacrifice are her brother and his friend in time to refrain from it. Aristotle (Ancient Greek: Aristotelēs 384 BC – March 7, 322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, who studied with Plato and taught Alexander the Great. ... Aristotles Poetics aims to give an account of poetry. ... Peripeteia (Greek, ) is a reversal of circumstances, or turning point. ... 112 Iphigenia is an asteroid. ...
See Aristotle's Poetics. Aristotles Poetics aims to give an account of poetry. ...
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