Plot
A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot.
A plantation laid out.
A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale.
To make a plot, map, pr plan, of; to mark the position of on a plan; to delineate.
Any scheme, stratagem, secret design, or plan, of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a treacherous and mischievous one; a conspiracy; an intrigue; as, the Rye-house Plot.
A share in such a plot or scheme; a participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
Contrivance; deep reach of thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
A plan; a purpose.
In fiction, the story of a play, novel, romance, or poem, comprising a complication of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
To form a scheme of mischief against another, especially against a government or those who administer it; to conspire.
To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme.
To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly.
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Plot Quotations
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
Anais Nin
That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess.
Tracey Emin
I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring.
David Brin
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
W. H. Auden
The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
E. M. Forster
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
Horace Walpole
I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.
Michael Ondaatje
You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got a beginning, and a middle and an end. It should have a plot; it should have the characters, conflict. It is a little play. And in it, will be funny stuff.
Harvey Korman
I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.
Anita Desai
Plot Translations
plot in Dutch is machinatie, intrige, konkelarij
plot in French is tracent, tracer, parcelle, conspiration, tracez
plot in German is graf.darstellen, Handlung, Entwurf, aufzeichnen
plot in Italian is congiura, parcella, complotto
plot in Latin is coniuro, coniuratio, insidiae
plot in Portuguese is lote
plot in Spanish is parcela, complot
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