5.1 plot structure中级英语写作.pdf

Unit 5 Design plot and story framing 
 5.1 Plot Structure Fiction Writing • learn some essential writing techniques related to fiction writing. • learn how to build up characters through a well-knitted plot in a certain setting. ✓how to design plot and story framing in order to reveal the theme of a story The five basic elements of fiction writing The classical example on plot (1)The king died, and then the queen died. (2)The king died, and then the queen died of grief. • The second sentence has a plot. Plot A story is a record on what happens, most of the time, chronologically. Plot refers to the sequence of events inside a  story which affect other events through the principle of  cause and effect.  • E.M.Foster, “Plot is the cause-and-effect relationship between events in a story.” •Plot is the cause-and-effect sequence of events in a story. Plot • Henry James definition in “Arts of Fiction”: Plot is characters under stress. •When characters are under stress, there is a development of the character’s psychology. ( plot is a progress.) • Jessica. P. Morrell says in her book: “I would like to add that plot is movement and a record of change. These changes—inflicted on the protagonist or a group of characters—alter their fortunes, choices, and beliefs.” (Mor rell, Jessica Page. Thanks, But This Isnt for Us: A (Sor t of) Compassionate Guide to Why Your Writing is Being Rejected (p. 57). Penguin Publishing Group.) Plot • This movement or the progress can be divided into three stages: BEGINNING: set up the frame of plot, giving an introduction of the characters, setting, and the conflicting forces. M