What Is The Plot In A Story?

The plot in a story can also be called a storyline and is the main part of the tale. The plot is the structure of events that lead certain things to happen. Withouth a plot, a story would have no fluidity and would not be easily understood.
A plot usually contains the 4 W’s and the one H. These are: When, What, Why, Who and How. If a plot does not answer all these questions then it is not a proper plot as it will mean there is no real structure to the story.
In his poetic times, Aristotle greatly respected the necessity to use a plot in stories and poems alike. He said that "A plot must have, a beginning, a middle, and an end, and the events of the plot must causally relate to one another as being either necessary, or probable.” Which is a brilliant description of what a plot is and what it needs to be.
However, a plot is made up of many more parts than just a beginning, middle and end. But without all these three elements being present and in chronological order, the story would not make sense and would not guide the reader through the events of the story with ease.

The plot of a story is a quick overview without giving away the ending. For example: The three little pigs story-plot is that three pigs are trying to live in their homes built of different materials, but the big bad wolf won't allow it.

The plot in a story is also called a storyline. It is the main story of any literary work, whether a play, a novel or a short story. A plot includes all the events that together tie up to make the story. It comprises of a proper beginning, middle and an end.

The plot of a story is the order of events that happens in a story
you have the beginning where all the characters are recognized and you find the conflict beginning and then there is a thing call the rising action and that is where the conflict happens and then there is the climax which is where they solve the problem and second to last there is the falling action which starts to end the story and last there is the resolution which ends the story

1.the main theme of a story,book or play
2.a small piece of land set aside for a special purpose

A  plot is a short summary of a story ,a " catch line " which describes the them of the book or summarizes the main plot action to hook the audience.

Ohk like really someone has to know what their talking about and no offense all you ppl don't seem like you do. So please someone who has a brain answer this question. Thank you.

It has several meanings. These include:

A piece of land

A secret plan/conspiracy

The story of a novel, film etc

The activity shown on a graph ('plotting a graph)

You could look at dictionary.com for more complete definitions and examples.

It means several things such as .. To conspire secretly,a plan or a small piece of land.

A plot in a story is the most important things that took place in the story. Plots are in chronological order and are best used with time order words.

The word plot is primarily used in stories and scripts and it defines a set of events that are related to each other in some way and are responsible to take the story in the forward direction. If a plot of a story is coherently written it gives the direction to the story and makes it reach to the logical sequence.

Several thinkers have given different definitions for the term plot and according to Aristotle you can define plot in literature as 'the arrangements of incidents that each follow from other in a plausible way'. You can say that a plot provides the guideline through which a story moves.

You can also define a plot as a carefully measured area that is laid out for experimentation and also for measurement.

The plot is a sequence of main events.For example, The beginning,the middle, and the end of the story make up the plot. They bring the story to life.So, a sequence of main events could be the plot or main ideas of certain parts of the story.

Example, "Colonel McMillan got in a space craft and headed to the planet Grognak." that has an event but no plot, however, "Colonel McMillan got in a space craft and headed to the planet Grognak in order to escape Earth's regime." that has an event with a plot.

The Plot Is what the story Is mainly about. It can Include details WItch Is called, A noun.
Remember that even though the story changes, Keep in mind what the story is mainly about.

Candy Roy
Teacher of the Debbie Champbell Learning Accademy.