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==Origin==

==Origin==

[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] piece of [[land]], [[plan]] of an area

[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] piece of [[land]], [[plan]] of an area

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century before 12th Century]

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century before 12th Century]

==Definitions==

==Definitions==

*1a : a small area of planted [[ground]] <a vegetable plot>

*1a : a small area of planted [[ground]] <a vegetable plot>

*5: a graphic [[representation]] (as a chart)  

*5: a graphic [[representation]] (as a chart)  

==Description==

==Description==

'''Plot''' is a [[literary]] term defined as the [[events]] that make up a [[story]], particularly as they relate to one another in a [[pattern]], in a [[sequence]], through cause and effect, how the [[reader]] views the story, or simply by [[coincidence]]. One is generally interested in how well this pattern of events accomplishes some artistic or emotional [[effect]]. An intricate, complicated plot is called an imbroglio, but even the [[simplest]] statements of plot may include multiple inferences, as in traditional [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballad ballads].

'''Plot''' is a [[literary]] term defined as the [[events]] that make up a [[story]], particularly as they relate to one another in a [[pattern]], in a [[sequence]], through cause and effect, how the [[reader]] views the story, or simply by [[coincidence]]. One is generally interested in how well this pattern of events accomplishes some artistic or emotional [[effect]]. An intricate, complicated plot is called an imbroglio, but even the [[simplest]] statements of plot may include multiple inferences, as in traditional [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballad ballads].

In his [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetics_(Aristotle) Poetics], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle Aristotle] considered plot (''mythos'') the most important element of [[drama]]—more important than [[character]], for example. A plot must have, Aristotle says, a beginning, a middle, and an end, and the [[events]] of the plot must causally relate to one another as being either [[necessary]] or probable. Of the utmost importance to Aristotle is the plot's [[ability]] to arouse [[emotion]] in the psyche of the [[audience]]. In [[tragedy]], the appropriate emotions are [[fear]] and [[pity]], emotions which he considers in his [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric_(Aristotle) Rhetoric]. (Aristotle's work on comedy has not survived.)

In his [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetics_(Aristotle) Poetics], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle Aristotle] considered plot (''mythos'') the most important element of [[drama]]—more important than [[character]], for example. A plot must have, Aristotle says, a beginning, a middle, and an end, and the [[events]] of the plot must causally relate to one another as being either [[necessary]] or probable. Of the utmost importance to Aristotle is the plot's [[ability]] to arouse [[emotion]] in the psyche of the [[audience]]. In [[tragedy]], the appropriate emotions are [[fear]] and [[pity]], emotions which he considers in his [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric_(Aristotle) Rhetoric]. (Aristotle's work on comedy has not survived.)

Aristotle goes on to consider whether the tragic [[character]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathos suffers (pathos)], and whether the tragic character [[commits]] the [[error]] with [[knowledge]] of what he is doing. He [[illustrates]] this with the question of a tragic character who is about to kill someone in his [[family]].

Aristotle goes on to consider whether the tragic [[character]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathos suffers (pathos)], and whether the tragic character [[commits]] the [[error]] with [[knowledge]] of what he is doing. He [[illustrates]] this with the question of a tragic character who is about to kill someone in his [[family]].

<blockquote>The worst situation [artistically] is when the personage is with full [[knowledge]] on the point of doing the deed, and leaves it undone. It is odious and also (through the [[absence]] of suffering) untragic; hence it is that no one is made to act thus except in some few instances, e.g., Haemon and Creon in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigone_(Sophocles) Antigone]. Next after this comes the actual perpetration of the deed meditated. A better situation than that, however, is for the deed to be done in [[ignorance]], and the [[relationship]] [[discovered]] afterwards, since there is nothing odious in it, and the discovery will serve to astound us. But the best of all is the last; what we have in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cresphontes Cresphontes], for example, where [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merope_(wife_of_Cresphontes) Merope], on the point of [[slaying]] her son, recognizes him in time; in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iphigenia Iphigenia], where sister and brother are in a like position; and in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helle_(mythology) Helle], where the son recognizes his [[mother]], when on the point of giving her up to her [[enemy]].(''[http://www.authorama.com/the-poetics-15.html Poetics book 14]'')  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plot_%28narrative%29 Source]</blockquote>

<blockquote>The worst situation [artistically] is when the personage is with full [[knowledge]] on the point of doing the deed, and leaves it undone. It is odious and also (through the [[absence]] of suffering) untragic; hence it is that no one is made to act thus except in some few instances, e.g., Haemon and Creon in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigone_(Sophocles) Antigone]. Next after this comes the actual perpetration of the deed meditated. A better situation than that, however, is for the deed to be done in [[ignorance]], and the [[relationship]] [[discovered]] afterwards, since there is nothing odious in it, and the discovery will serve to astound us. But the best of all is the last; what we have in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cresphontes Cresphontes], for example, where [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merope_(wife_of_Cresphontes) Merope], on the point of [[slaying]] her son, recognizes him in time; in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iphigenia Iphigenia], where sister and brother are in a like position; and in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helle_(mythology) Helle], where the son recognizes his [[mother]], when on the point of giving her up to her [[enemy]].(''[https://www.authorama.com/the-poetics-15.html Poetics book 14]'')  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plot_%28narrative%29 Source]</blockquote>

[[Category: Languages and Literature]]

[[Category: Languages and Literature]]