Plot

Plot can be defined as the necessary chosen order of a fiction. The definition based on the face that the story (novel) consists of many events and it becomes coherent, meaningful and interesting.
According to Abrams, (1993:159) plot in dramatic or narrative work is constituted of its event and action, as these rendered and ordered toward achieving particular emotional and artistic effect.
Tennyson (1967:21) says that the plot has a structure. The structure of the plot usually contains five parts:

1. Exposition is the beginning on the section in which the author provides the necessary background information such as sets of the scene, the established situations and dates of section. It also contains the introduction of the characters and the potent ion.

2. Complication sometimes refers to the rising action and the existing equilibrium or balance. The conflict is the developed gradually.

3. Crisis is also called as the climax of the story occurs now of emotional intensity and usually that involves in decision, a decisive or an open conflict between protagonist and antagonist.

4. Falling action refers to the turning point at which the plot of the novels toward its appointed conclusion.

5. Denouement or resolution refers to the situation at which gives the situation at which gives the solution of the conflict and how the story ended.
Plot must have beginning middle, and end in a beginning, the problem and the characters are exposed or introduced, followed by rising action and move towards a climax or major crisis then moves down in falling action and concludes in and end.


References:

Abrams, M.H. 1985. A Glossary of literary Term. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston.

Tennyson, GB. 1987. An Introduction to Drama. Los Angeles: Holt Rinehart and Winston, Inc.