KEYWORDS AND CONCEPTS:

PLOT
BY:
STEFANI NICOLE D. ALCANTAR
KARLO EDESSON P. ABRIL
 WHAT IS A PLOT?
In literature, a plot is all the events in
a story particularly rendered
towards the achievement of some
particular artistic or emotional
effect.
 TYPES OF PLOTS:
PYRAMIDAL

EPISODIC

EPIPHANIC
 Pyramidal Plot
The most basic and traditional form
of plot
Mostly, are plot structures of short
stories
Can be analyzed using Gustav
Freytags Triangle that was
originally based on Aristotles Plot
with Unity of Action
 Parts of the Pyramidal Plot
CLIMAX
The turning point
The most intense moment (either mentally or in action)

RISING FALLING
ACTION ACTION
The series of conflicts All of the action
and crisis in the story that which follows the
lead to the climax climax

EXPOSITION
RESOLUTION
The start of the story.
The conclusion
The way things are
The tying together of all
before the action starts the threads
Some Prose with Pyramidal
Plots
A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
The Piece of String by Guy de
Maupassant
The Flood in Tarlac by Gregorio
Brilliantes
 Episodic Plot
Features distinct episodes that are
related to one another but that can
also be read individually, almost as
stories by themselves
Mostly, are plot structures of novels
Some Prose with Episodic
Plots
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Harry Potter Series
 Epiphanic Plot
Where the protagonist gains a
sudden insight into his condition or
circumstances, caused by his
struggle with antagonistic forces,
that leads him/her to take action that
brings on the climax or reversal
 Plots can be told
in chronological order

using flashbacks

in medias res
In Medias Res: What is it?
Latin for "into the middle of things

a literary and artistic technique

where the narrative starts in the
middle of the story instead of from
its beginning
 In Medias Res Examples
John Miltons Paradise Lost and
Inferno
Homers Iliad and Odyssey
The East Indian Mahabharata
Edgar Allan Poes The Tell-Tale
Heart