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Aristotle’s treatise is an inquiry into poetic craft, especially how tragedy shapes action into a plot that an audience can believe. When considering subject matter, he allows poets to invent names and events, arguing that a made-up incident can be persuasive if it seems possible. Later, the account turns to language itself, distinguishing nouns from verbs partly by the way verbs indicate time.
