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The plot follows two friends searching for a lost dog.
What does Plot mean?
Plot means a story’s connected events, a piece of land, a secret plan, or points shown on a graph or map.
Dictionary definition
A plot is the connected plan or main sequence of events in a story. It can also be a measured piece of land, a secret plan to do something harmful or illegal, or a graph or chart. As a verb, plot means to plan secretly, devise a story, or mark points, data, positions, or a route on a graph or map.
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Plot in a sentence
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We planted beans in a small garden plot.
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The characters uncover a plot to steal the museum’s painting.
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Plot the temperature data on the graph.
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The navigator plotted a safe route around the storm.
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The writer plotted the mystery before drafting the first chapter.
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What does plot mean in “The plot builds toward a surprising rescue” ?
The events and rescue signal the story sense of plot.
Practice 2
Which sentence uses plot as a math or data verb?
In math, to plot means to mark a point using coordinates.
Practice 3
Choose the best word: Setting tells where the story happens; ____ tells how its events connect.
Plot is the organized sequence or plan of story events.
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Partnoun, verb.
MeaningPlot means a story’s connected events, a piece of land, a secret plan, or points shown on a graph or map.
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Synonyms
Words like Plot
storylineClose when plot means the connected main events of a story.
parcelClose when plot means a measured piece of land.
schemeClose when plot means a secret plan, often one intended to cause harm or break a rule or law.
chartClose for a graphic representation, though chart can include displays that are not plots.
mapClose to the verb plot when marking a route or position.
Antonym review
Does Plot have an opposite?
Plot has no single direct opposite across story, land, secret-plan, graph, and verb senses. Random events and description only are not true antonyms of a story plot.
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Word family
Plot word family
Base word
plot
noun
plots
More than one storyline, piece of land, plan, or graph; also the present-tense verb used with he, she, or it.
verb
plotted
Planned, mapped, graphed, or devised in the past; the final t is doubled.
verb
plotting
Planning, mapping, graphing, or devising now; the final t is doubled.
adjective
plotless
Having little or no organized storyline.
noun
subplot
A smaller secondary storyline within the main plot.
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Hint for students
Look for story events, a measured piece of land, secret planning, or points and routes marked on a graph or map.
Common mix-up
Plot is not only a story word. It can mean land, a secret harmful plan, a graph, or the act of mapping data or a route. Plot and setting are different story elements, not opposites.
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Sort eight sentences into storyline, land, secret plan, and graph or map. Then draw a three-event plot line for a familiar story and label its setting separately.
Teacher prompt
Compare plot as story events, land, a secret plan, and graphing. Which clues signal each sense, and why is setting not an antonym of plot?
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