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GCSE English Literature · key term
The sequence of events in a story, including the connections between actions, causes and consequences.
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Paper 1, Paper 2
The sequence of events in a story or play, including how one event causes or influences another.
Revise: Plot overviewUnlike the murder of Duncan, this plot does not require Lady Macbeth to persuade him; he keeps its details from her.
The sequence of events in a literary work, including how actions cause later consequences.
Use plot knowledge to explain why a moment matters, rather than retelling everything that happens.
Locate an extract within the plot: explain what has just happened and how it affects what follows.
Use plot knowledge to explain Shakespeare’s choices, rather than retelling every event.
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The connected sequence of events in a story, including how actions cause later consequences.
The sequence of events in a story, including the causes and consequences that connect them.
The connected events of a story, including how characters’ actions cause later developments.
The sequence of events in a story and the connections between them, including causes and consequences.
Paper 1, Paper 2
The sequence of events in a story or play, including the causes and consequences that connect them.
Revise: Plot overviewFollowing Macbeth's choices helps us see the plot as a chain of causes and consequences, rather than a series of unrelated deaths.
The arrangement of events in a story or play, including how one event causes or changes another.
The connected sequence of events in a story, including the causes and consequences linking them.
Paper 1, Paper 2
The sequence of events in a story, including the connections between what characters do and what happens as a result.
Revise: Plot overviewGeorge Orwell's Animal Farm is a novella of ten chapters, set on a farm in England. Its plot follows animals who overthrow their human owner in the hope of ending hunger, overwork and cruelty. The pigs become their leaders, but gradually take privileges for themselves and use persuasion and violence to prevent challenges.
The sequence of events in a literary work, including the connections between actions and their consequences.
The sequence of events in a story or play, including how actions cause later developments.
The sequence of events in a text and the connections between them, including how one action leads to another.
The connected sequence of events in a story, including how characters’ decisions cause later events.
Component 1, Component 2
The events of a story and the connections between them, including how actions produce consequences.
Revise: Plot overviewFollowing those decisions helps explain the plot as a chain of causes and consequences, rather than a list of murders.
The events of a story and the connections between them.
The ordered sequence of events in a story, including the causes and consequences that connect them.
The sequence of events in a story, including how one event leads to another.
The sequence of events in a story, including how one event causes or influences another.
The ordered events of a story and the relationships between them, including causes and consequences.
The sequence of events in a story or play, including the connections between actions and their consequences.
The connected sequence of events in a story or play, including how characters' actions cause later events.
A sequence of connected events in a literary work, shaped by characters' actions and their consequences.
