Aristotle’s Six Elements of a Play

Cluster diagram of Aristotle's six elements of a play (version one):

Spectacle = the visual

effects

rhythm

Music

Thought,

initial

Theme, and

entanglement

Ideas

= what the play

rising action

means

Action and

resolu-

Plot

tion

= what are the

events of the

play:

Aristotle's

Six

climax

falling

Elements of

action

a Play

Thought, Theme, and tempo Ideas word

choices

What the play means

Characters = people in the play

patterns

enunciation

Language

dialog

Cluster diagram of Aristotle's six elements of a play (version two):

Spectacle = the visual

effects

rhythm

Music

Thought,

initial

Theme, and Ideas

entanglement

= what the play

rising action

means

Action and

resolu-

Plot

tion

= what are the

events of the

play:

Aristotle's

Six

climax

falling

Elements of

action

a Play

Thought, Theme, and tempo Ideas word What the play choices

means

Characters = people in the play

patterns

enunciation

Language

dialog

Cluster diagram of Aristotle's six elements of a play (version three):

Spectacle = the visual

effects

rhythm

Music

Thought,

initial

Theme, and

entanglement

Ideas

= what the play

rising action

means

Action and

resolu-

Plot

tion

= what are the

events of the

play:

Aristotle's

Six

climax

falling

Elements of

action

a Play

Thought, Theme, and tempo Ideas word What the play choices

means

Characters = people in the play

patterns

enunciation

Language

dialog

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