American Heritage Dictionary
plot
n.
A small piece of ground, generally used for a specific purpose: a garden plot.
A measured area of land; a lot.
A ground plan, as for a building; a diagram.
See graph1.
The pattern of events or main story in a narrative or drama.
A secret plan to accomplish a hostile or illegal purpose; a scheme
A space. A story. A scheme.
Is a plot a series of questions? What happens once they're answered? Does plot disappear once it's revealed?
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Maybe I am being too much of a traditionalist, but
I feel more comfortable saying that plot is more a
series of answers than a series of questions. There
may be a wonderful series of questions in the writer's
mind as plot is being constructed or in the reader/
viewer's mind as plot is unfolding, but the plot itself
is the answers.
As for expiry, I would say that plot exists after it
happens in precisely the same way that the past
exists.
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