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Plot vs Emplotment - What's the difference?

plot | emplotment |

As nouns the difference between plot and emplotment

is that plot is the course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means while emplotment is the assembly of a series of historical events into a narrative with a plot.

As a verb plot

is to conceive (a crime, etc).

plot

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • If the plot or intrigue must be natural, and such as springs from the subject, then the winding up of the plot must be a probable consequence of all that went before.
  • An area or land used for building on or planting on.
  • A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
  • A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.
    • The plot would have enabled them to get a majority on the board.
    The assassination of Lincoln was part of a larger plot .
  • * Shakespeare
    • I have overheard a plot of death.
  • * Addison
    • O, think what anxious moments pass between / The birth of plots and their last fatal periods!
  • Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
  • * Denham
    • a man of much plot
  • Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
  • * Milton
    • And when Christ saith, Who marries the divorced commits adultery, it is to be understood, if he had any plot in the divorce.
  • A plan; a purpose.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • no other plot in their religion but serve God and save their souls

    Synonyms

    * (course of a story) storyline * (area) parcel * (secret plan) conspiracy, scheme

    Derived terms

    * Gunpowder Plot * lose the plot * plotless * subplot * the plot thickens/plot thickens

    Verb

    (plott)
  • To conceive (a crime, etc).
    • They had ''plotted a robbery.
  • To trace out (a graph or diagram).
    • They ''plotted'' the number of edits per day.
  • To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
    • Every five minutes they ''plotted'' their position.
  • * Carew
    • This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth.
  • To conceive a crime, misdeed, etc.
    • ''They were plotting against the king.

    Synonyms

    * (contrive) becast * (sense) scheme

    Derived terms

    * replot

    Anagrams

    * * English control verbs ----

    emplotment

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historiography) The assembly of a series of historical events into a narrative with a plot.
  • * 1978 , , "The Historical Text As Literary Artifact", re-printed in Geoffrey Roberts (editor), The History and Narrative Reader , Routledge (2001), ISBN 041523249X, page 223,
    • Yet, I would argue, histories gain part of their explanatory effect by their success in making stories out of mere'' chronicles; and stories in turn are made out of chronicles by an operation which I have elsewhere called “emplotment'''.” And by '''emplotment I mean simply the encodation of the facts contained in the chronicle as components of specific ''kinds of plot structures, in precisely the way that Frye has suggested is the case with “fictions” in general.