Story
- Is a series of connected events that tells what happened.
- Has a beginning, middle, and maybe an end.
- Follows the logical progression of this happened, then that happened, then that happened, etc.
- Tells you what happened, giving equal weight to all the events in the sequence.
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Plot
- Is a series of connected events that tells what happened and why.
- Has a beginning, middle, and end.
- May use different structures to show what happened.
- Shows you what happened in a series of scenes. It's presented the way the author chooses to present it. May leave out or give light weight to incidents deemed less important
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