Subplot

Entertainment / Literature / Subplot: A minor or subordinate secondary plot, often involving a deuteragonist's struggles, which takes place simultaneously with a larger plot, usually involving the protagonist. The subplot often echoes or comments upon the direct plot either directly or obliquely. Sometimes two opening subplots merge into a single storyline later in a play or narrative.
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Plot

Entertainment / Literature / Plot: The structure and relationship of actions and events in a work of fiction. In order for a plot to begin, some sort of catalyst is necessary. While the temporal order of events in the work constitutes MORE

Theomarchy

Entertainment / Literature / Theomarchy: Strife or warfare among the gods, especially in the sense of this activity as a subplot (overplot?) In the Homeric poems such as The Iliad. MORE

Double Plot

Entertainment / Literature / Double Plot: When an author uses two related plots within a single narrative. See futher discussion under subplot and plot. MORE