Plot (narrative)

In a literary work, film, or other narrative, the plot is the mapping of events in which each one affects at least one other. Plot is similar in meaning to the term storyline. Simple plots, such as in a traditional ballad, can be linearly sequenced, but plots can form complex interwoven structures, with each part sometimes referred to as a subplot.

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