Plot means plot, intrigue, gossip, confusion, machination. It is the act or effect of entangling, that is, of catching or scooping with a net. It is also the act of creating intrigues that cause annoyances, enmities.
The word plot comes from the word "net", which suggests the intertwining, the tangle, the involvement.
plot in narrative context
In the narrative context, plot is the chain of facts narrated in a text, it is one of the elements of the structure of a novel, a novel or a short story. It is the content on which the narrative is built. It's the plot, it's the sequence of facts, it's the situations experienced by the characters during the course of a story.
The plot has several features. From the plot you can reach the theme, which is the central motif of a narrative. The plot presents situations of conflict between the characters, created to obtain drama in the text. O climax it is the moment of greatest dramatic tension in a plot, that is, the moment when the conflict reaches its greatest drama. O outcome of a plot is the moment when conflicts are resolved.
linear plot
The narration of a plot may or may not follow a linear sequence. The plot is linear when the facts are narrated in the temporal sequence in which they occur, that is, it follows a chronological order. Other times the narrator does not follow this order, the plot suffers discontinuity, with anticipations and retrospectives, even so it is always possible to reconstruct the sequence.
Samba plot
The samba enredo is a song specially composed to accompany the parade of a samba school, during the carnival party. The lyrics of the samba enredo are a narrative that constitutes the entire plot that the samba school will present on the avenue.
The plot samba is sung throughout the school's evolution and is one of the fundamental requirements for the school's judgment in the competition.
The samba enredo emerged in the city of Rio de Janeiro, in the mid-1930s, through the presentation of a school, from then on it became part of the parade of all associations.
From the different sambas created in each school, following the theme of the plot that will be presented, a internal competition, which will elect the champion samba, which will accompany the parade on the avenue during the period carnivalesque.
See too:
- Romance
- omniscient narrator
- Narrative text characteristics