Towards A Glossary: Notes, Quotes, and Improvised Definitions
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| E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel (Qtd. in Literary
Terms and Litearry Theory, J. A. Cuddon. 3rd ed. London: Penguin Books, 1976. ) We have defined a story as a narrative of events arranged in their time-sequence. A plot is also a narrative of events, the emphasis falling on causality. "The king died and the queen died," is a story. "The king died and then the queen died of grief," is a plot. The time-sequence is preserved, but the sense of causality overshadows it. Or again: "The queen died, no one knew why, until it was discovered that it was through grief at the death of the king." This is a plot with a mystery in it, a form capable of high development. 721-722
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