Drama vs. Plot — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Drama and Plot
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Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television. Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's Poetics (c.
Plot
A plan made in secret by a group of people to do something illegal or harmful
There's a plot to overthrow the government
Drama
A play for theatre, radio, or television
A gritty urban drama about growing up in Harlem
Plot
The main events of a play, novel, film, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence
The plot consists almost entirely of a man and woman falling in love
He outlined his idea for a movie plot
Drama
An exciting, emotional, or unexpected event or circumstance
A hostage drama
An afternoon of high drama at Wembley
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Plot
A small piece of ground marked out for a purpose such as building or gardening
A vegetable plot
Drama
A prose or verse composition, especially one telling a serious story, that is intended for representation by actors impersonating the characters and performing the dialogue and action.
Plot
A graph showing the relation between two variables.
Drama
A serious narrative work or program for television, radio, or the cinema.
Plot
Secretly make plans to carry out (an illegal or harmful action)
The two men are serving sentences for plotting a bomb campaign
Brother plots against brother
Drama
Theatrical plays of a particular kind or period
Elizabethan drama.
Plot
Devise the sequence of events in (a play, novel, film, or similar work)
In a crime story you have to plot carefully to achieve the surprise at the end
She would plot a chapter as she drove
Drama
The art or practice of writing or producing dramatic works.
Plot
Mark (a route or position) on a chart
He started to plot lines of ancient sites
Drama
A situation or succession of events in real life having the dramatic progression or emotional effect characteristic of a play
The drama of the prisoner's escape and recapture.
Plot
A small piece of ground, generally used for a specific purpose
A garden plot.
Drama
The quality or condition of being dramatic
A summit meeting full of drama.
Plot
A measured area of land; a lot.
Drama
A composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue
The author released her latest drama, which became a best-seller.
Plot
A ground plan, as for a building; a diagram.
Drama
Such a work for television, radio or the cinema (usually one that is not a comedy)
Plot
See graph1.
Drama
Theatrical plays in general
Plot
The pattern or sequence of interrelated events in a work of fiction, as a novel or film.
Drama
A situation in real life that has the characteristics of such a theatrical play
After losing my job, having a car crash, and the big row with my neighbours, I don't need any more drama.
Plot
A secret plan to accomplish a hostile or illegal purpose; a scheme.
Drama
(slang) Rumor, lying or exaggerated reaction to life or online events; melodrama; an angry dispute or scene; a situation made more complicated or worse than it should be; intrigue or spiteful interpersonal maneuvering.
Plot
To represent graphically, as on a chart
Plot a ship's course.
Drama
A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than ordinary interest, tending toward some striking result. It is commonly designed to be spoken and represented by actors on the stage.
A divine pastoral drama in the Song of Solomon.
Plot
To locate (points or other figures) on a graph by means of coordinates.
Drama
A series of real events invested with a dramatic unity and interest.
Westward the course of empire takes its way;The four first acts already past,A fifth shall close the drama with the day;Time's noblest offspring is the last.
The drama and contrivances of God's providence.
Plot
To draw (a curve) connecting points on a graph.
Drama
Dramatic composition and the literature pertaining to or illustrating it; dramatic literature.
Plot
To write or develop the plot of
"I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read" (James Baldwin).
Drama
A dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage;
He wrote several plays but only one was produced on Broadway
Plot
To form a plot for; prearrange secretly or deviously
Plot an assassination.
Drama
An episode that is turbulent or highly emotional
Plot
To form or take part in a plot; scheme
Were plotting for months before the attack.
Drama
The literary genre of works intended for the theater
Plot
To write or develop the plot for a work of fiction
A good mystery writer must plot well.
Drama
The quality of being arresting or highly emotional
Plot
(narratology) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
Plot
An area or land used for building on or planting on.
Plot
A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
Plot
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.
Plot
Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
Plot
Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
Plot
A plan; a purpose.
Plot
Attractive physical attributes of characters involved in a story, originating from ironic juxtaposition with the original meaning (course of the story).
I'm not sure what's happening in that show, I mainly watch it for the plot.
Plot
To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc).
They had plotted a robbery.
They were plotting against the king.
Plot
(transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).
They plotted the number of edits per day.
Plot
(transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
Every five minutes they plotted their position.
Plot
A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot.
Plot
A plantation laid out.
Plot
A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale.
Plot
Any scheme, stratagem, secret design, or plan, of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a treacherous and mischievous one; a conspiracy; an intrigue; as, the Rye-house Plot.
I have overheard a plot of death.
O, think what anxious moments pass betweenThe birth of plots and their last fatal periods!
Plot
A share in such a plot or scheme; a participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
And when Christ saith, Who marries the divorced commits adultery, it is to be understood, if he had any plot in the divorce.
Plot
Contrivance; deep reach of thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
Plot
A plan; a purpose.
Plot
In fiction, the story of a play, novel, romance, or poem, comprising a complication of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
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.
Plot
To make a plot, map, pr plan, of; to mark the position of on a plan; to delineate.
This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth.
Plot
To form a scheme of mischief against another, especially against a government or those who administer it; to conspire.
The wicked plotteth against the just.
Plot
To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme.
The prince did plot to be secretly gone.
Plot
To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly.
Plot
A secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal);
They concocted a plot to discredit the governor
I saw through his little game from the start
Plot
A small area of ground covered by specific vegetation;
A bean plot
A cabbage patch
A briar patch
Plot
The story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.;
The characters were well drawn but the plot was banal
Plot
A chart or map showing the movements or progress of an object
Plot
Plan secretly, usually something illegal;
They plotted the overthrow fo the government
Plot
Make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows how things work or how they are constructed
Plot
Make a plat of;
Plat the town
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