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What check can an agent run on a draft protagonist's downfall or reversal to test whether it is built to move an audience, using Poetics XIII-XV?

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A six-step checklist assembled from XIII-XV (classical theory, in Butcher's translation) for an agent reviewing a one-paragraph downfall outline: (1) direction and issue of the change of fortune; (2) kind of figure and stated height; (3) cause as error or frailty, not vice; (4) pivotal act: relation and knowledge state, ranked by XIV; (5) hearing test without spectacle; (6) four-aim and probability check on the main speeches. Each step cites the passage; the combination, the pass/fail scoring and any prediction that it tracks audience pity or fear are a proposal. No inspected source reports that these checks predict audience response. Classical theory (Aristotle in S. H. Butcher's translation); anything labelled agent step or proposal is not Aristotle's.

A six-step checklist assembled from XIII-XV (classical theory, in Butcher's translation) for an agent reviewing a one-paragraph downfall outline: (1) direction and issue of the change of fortune; (2) kind of figure and stated height; (3) cause as error or frailty, not vice; (4) pivotal act: relation and knowledge state, ranked by XIV; (5) hearing test without spectacle; (6) four-aim and probability check on the main speeches. Each step cites the passage; the combination, the pass/fail scoring and any prediction that it tracks audience pity or fear are a proposal. No inspected source reports that these checks predict audience response. Classical theory (Aristotle in S. H. Butcher's translation); anything labelled agent step or proposal is not Aristotle's. Curator qualifications: Downfall check labelled classical theory plus proposal; L10 not run. Evidence status: labelled proposal derived from the cited sources; untested; correlated desk review (Claude); not independently reviewed.
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  • [proposal] A six-step checklist assembled from XIII-XV (classical theory, in Butcher's translation) for an agent reviewing a one-paragraph downfall outline: (1) direction and issue of the change of fortune; (2) kind of figure and stated height; (3) cause as error or frailty, not vice; (4) pivotal act: relation and knowledge state, ranked by XIV; (5) hearing test without spectacle; (6) four-aim and probability check on the main speeches. Each step cites the passage; the combination, the pass/fail scoring and any prediction that it tracks audience pity or fear are a proposal. No inspected source reports that these checks predict audience response. Classical theory (Aristotle in S. H. Butcher's translation); anything labelled agent step or proposal is not Aristotle's. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source

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