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Plot Devices

The document discusses the concept of plot in fiction, detailing various devices such as chronological order, medias res, flashback, foreshadowing, and stream of consciousness. It outlines the stages of plot development, including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution, using 'The Necklace' by Guy de Maupassant as an example. The summary of the story illustrates how these elements come together to create a cohesive narrative.

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Plot Devices

The document discusses the concept of plot in fiction, detailing various devices such as chronological order, medias res, flashback, foreshadowing, and stream of consciousness. It outlines the stages of plot development, including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution, using 'The Necklace' by Guy de Maupassant as an example. The summary of the story illustrates how these elements come together to create a cohesive narrative.

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Plot— is one element in fiction stories that is made up of incidents arranged in a

sequence. Devices in plotting a story include the following:


1. Chronological order—starts from the beginning of the events.
2. Medias res—begins at the middle.
3. Flashback—past events are shown to justify the conflict at present.
4. Foreshadowing—author present events or details of the present to take on value
by being indicators of future events.
5. Stream of consciousness—continuous and random flow of ideas, feelings,
sensations, association and perceptions as they register on the protagonist’s
consciousness.
. . . My friends keep telling me that I’m in love. Ugh! I’m going to give my
cousin a hand when I get home. She’s having a hard time choosing a birthday
present. I suppose I’m in love. My classmates are actually biased about “old
maidenism.” I guess there’s nothing wrong with being an old maid, but I hope I
won’t be one. My brown shoes are worth the price I paid for them. . .

Plot is made up of incidents arranged in a sequence or series.


And these series of events stages such as the following:
exposition or presentation of characters and situation, story’s
setting, and conflict of the text; rising action or conflict is the
source of tension or problem in the story making events move
upward; climax is the peak or turning point of the story and where
the central conflict is addressed; falling action, also called
"denouement" is the aftermath of the climax and solution to the
conflict; and resolution or conclusion is the end of the plot story
where the conflict or problem is finally resolved.
E.g., In the story, "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant, the
following conflict and plot in the mind are presented.
Exposition: Mathilde and her husband are poor couple of marital
status.
Conflict: Mathilde was invited to attend an important affair but
she had nothing to wear.
Climax: Mathilde lost the diamond necklace she borrowed from
Madam Forestier.
Falling action: Mathilde and her husband worked hard to replace
the diamond necklace.
Resolution/Conclusion: Mathilde and Madame Forestier met after
ten years. Mathilde found out that the diamond necklace she
replaced was fake.

Net source:
https://americanliterature.com/author/guy-de-maupassant/short-
story/the-necklace

Prepared by Jacquiline P. Mendoza, LPT, MAEd


SHS Teacher

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