Plot Plot is a technical term to say about a series of tied-together events in a story. Perrine says that plot is a sequence of incidents or events which a story is composed. Connolly says that lot is the arrangement of details and incidents in a story. Aristotle says that plot has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

A plot contains motives, consequences, and relationships. Hall defines plot as what happens in in a story, the story’s organized development, usually a chain linking the cause and effect. Dietrich and Sundell define plot as the arrangement of events in a story. Conclusion: plot or the structure of story is the arrangement of tied-together chronological events which have cause and thematic conceptions,

The shape of plot Crisis Falling action if any Resolution Conflict and its complication

CLIMAX Complication Complication Resolution Point of attack NTRODUCTION Conclusion

THE TYPES OF PLOT Plots of fortune Plots of character Plot of thought Plot of structure

Plot of fortune The action plot The pathetic plot The tragic plot The punitive plot The sentimental plot The admiration plot

Plot of character Maturing plot; The most common with plot which turn upon a change in character involves a sympathetic protagonist whose goals are either mistakenly conceived or yet formed. The reform plot; this is another form of character change for doing better . This is similar to maturing plot.

The testing plot, a plot which tells a sympathetic character who is pressured in one way or another to compromise or surrender his noble ends and ways: he has to choose to loose his nerve or holding fast and suffering the consequences. The degeneration plot; a plot in which a character changes for the worst.

Plots of thought The Education plot, involves a change in thought for better in terms of the protagonist. The revelation plot, a plot in which a protagonist’s ignorance of essential fact of his situation. He must discover the truth before come to a decision. The affective plot, a plot in which the character’s attitude and belief are changed

The disillusion plot, a plot in which a sympathetic protagonist starts out in the full bloom of faith in certain set of ideals and after being subjected to some kind of loss, thread, or trial, loses faith entirely.

THE PLOT STRUCTURE The beginning The middle The end.

The type of plot (based on E.M. Foster’s) Chronology, i.e. recounting of events in the order of their supposed happening based on the time. Logical sequence of events (cause and effect). The well made plot.