THE PLOT DIAGRAM The plot diagram: most people learn about it somewhere in elementary school‚ and indeed‚ it is the most elementary of tools a writer and reader can use in summarizing and outlining a story. It is so basic and flexible that pretty much every story written in existence can be outlined via the plot diagram. And yet‚ there are stories that‚ when outlined‚ twist the plot diagram into interesting shapes‚ which leads me to suspect that there is a missing step in the plot diagram: the elusive
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Essay The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 has come to be known as Britain’s greatest conspiracy. If it had succeeded‚ many say it would’ve been one of the greatest terrorist plots ever. However‚ the Oxford Dictionary’s definition of terrorism is “the unofficial or unauthorized use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims”. While many may argue that this is what the gunpowder plot was‚ it was actually an attempted coup‚ not a campaign of terror and violence. The plot was led by Robert Catesby
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The Babington Plot Anthony Babington was a young Catholic noble who joined a plot to depose the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I and put Mary Queen of Scots on the English throne. Sir Francis Walsingham‚ the head of Elizabeth’s secret service‚ captured a Catholic plotter named Gilbert Gifford and ‘convinced’ him to act as a double agent. Gifford would act as an intermediary - smuggling letters to Mary who was imprisoned in Chartley Hall. All the letters were given to Walsingham. The letters were written
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A plot twist is a change in the expected direction or outcome of the plot of a film‚ television series‚ video game‚ novel‚ comic or other fictional work. It is a common practice in narration used to keep the interest of an audience‚ usually surprising them with a revelation. Some "twists" are foreshadowed and can thus be predicted by many viewers/readers‚ whereas others are a complete shock. When a plot twist happens near the end of a story‚ especially if it changes one’s view of the preceding events
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movie because of the plot suffered and production of the movie was poor. The plot was a very apparent problem; with the bad pacing and easily avoidable plot it made for a less interesting movie. For the first thirty minutes of the movie the characters are introduced and the story of how Scotty Smalls became friends with the kids at the sandlot was shown. The rest of the movie‚ until the last thirty minutes‚ consisted only of random fillers that provided little for the plot that made the movie much
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Katherine Mansfield’s story‚ "Bliss‚" is about sex. Yet‚ because Bertha’s sexuality does not manifest itself in an immediate desire for a heterosexual sexual encounter it is difficult to determine how sexuality figures in the story. The presentation of sexuality in Mansfield’s stories is so unique that most critics contributing to Jan Pilditch’s The Critical Response to Katherine Mansfield do not realize how deeply sexuality figures in the stories and do not refer to it in their analyses. Cherry
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Plot The unified structure of incidents in a literary work. See Conflict‚ Climax‚ Denouement‚ andFlashback. Dialogue The conversation of characters in a literary work. In fiction‚ dialogue is typically enclosed within quotation marks. In plays‚ characters’ speech is preceded by their names. act n. 5. One of the major divisions of a play or opera. scene a. The scenery and properties for a dramatic presentation mo·tif a. A recurrent thematic element in an artistic or literary work
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Katherine Prescott is 7 years and 10 months old female student currently enrolled in a 1st grade inclusion program at P.S. 304. Katherine Prescott has a pre-existing diagnosis of a learning disability. In kindergarten‚ Katherine was evaluated and diagnosis with autism. In addition‚ Katherine is an English Language Learner. Both of her parent speaks Spanish and minimal English. Katherine only opportunity to practice English is in school. Due to Katherine’s pre-existing diagnosis‚ her learning disability
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The event I chose to write about is a TV show called Narcos. I chose Narcos for several reasons that relate to what we are talking about in class as well as being a decent representation of what politics are like in certain situations. The Plot of Narcos is that the American Government made a deal with Columbia to track down the major cocaine suppliers and drug lords and extradite them back to the United States for processing in the 1990’s. This show is based on true events and it represents many
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ASSIGNMENT ON BOX PLOT COURSE CODE: URP1251 COURSE TITLE: STATISTICS FOR PLANNERS | SUBMITTED BY MEHEDI MUDASSER 110412 SUBMISSION DATE: 09/05/2012 DISCUSSION OF BOX PLOT GRAPH WITH APPROPRIATE EXAMPLES The box plot goes back to John Tukey‚ which published in 1977 this efficient method to display robust statistics. Box plots‚ the term of graphical
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