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Plot Structure and Anime (IAO's English Classroom Corner #1)
IN ENGLISH-LANGUAGE ARTS
Nearly every form of prose has a plot structure. Without plot, drama, fiction, and non-fiction (as well as some forms of poetry) would cease to exist. You might have well rounded characters, a coherent setting, tone, and point-of-view, a profound set of themes and oppositions, and a handful of figures of speech and symbols, but if none of those things do anything, you will have no story. Events and circumstances shape storytelling.
Plot, defined by Aristotle in his Poetics as “the imitation of action,” contains a beginning (“that which does not itself follow anything by causal necessity, but after which something naturally is or comes to be”), a middle (“that which follows something as some other thing follows it”), and end (“that which itself follows some other thing…but has nothing following it”).
Ultimately, Aristotle’s definition of plot can be summed up as the eventsthat happen within a story.
Plot Structure, then, is the pattern in which the events within a story happen.
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It stormed yesterday, today, and again tomorrow, and then Tuesday and Wednesday the temperature's going to drop down into the mid 70s and I'm so ready for that!
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