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PlotThe Elements of Fiction

G-EN270 INTRO TO FICTION

Bruce Clary, McPherson College, McPherson, Kansas

Plot is a sequence of events that “has a beginning, a middle, and an end.”

—Aristotle, Poetics

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“A plot is a series of events deliberately arranged so as to reveal their dramatic, thematic, and emotional significance.”

—Janet Burroway

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Two dynamics of plot

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• Movement in time

• Movement in dramatic tension

Movement in time / chronology

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• Unified plots

• Episodic plots

Three chronological techniques

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• Flashbacks

• Foreshadowing

• Discontinuity

Movement in dramatic tension

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“Conflict is the first encountered and the fundamental element of fiction, fundamental because in literature only trouble is interesting.

“Only trouble is interesting.”

—Janet Burroway

Movement in dramatic tension

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• Conflict (internal and/or external)

• Rising action

• Crisis and climax

• Dénouement or resolution

The beginning of stories

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• Exposition

• In medias res

The middle of stories

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• Rising action

• Characterized by a series of reversals, called peripeteia

Short story endings

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• Closed ending

• Open ending

• Epiphany

Other models for analyzing plot

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• 3-D: Drama equals desire plus danger

• Story as war (Mel McKee)

• Connection – disconnection

What readers demand from plots

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• Unity – plausible cause-and-effect, not just dominoes falling

• Significance – shows us something about human nature and human nature. A model of reality.

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