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Plot and device
| Unreliable narrator || Plot device || The narrator of the story is not sincere, or introduces a bias in his narration and possibly misleads the reader, hiding or minimizing events, characters, or motivations.
# REDIRECT Plot device
* Plot anchor, a type of story-line plot device
* Plot device
* Plot device
# REDIRECT Plot device # Other devices

Plot and object
She was the special object of attack by the inventors of the Popish Plot.

Plot and character
Plot is still used to develop character and setting, but most of the time, the ultimate goal is to show scenes of sexuality with few exceptions.
Willkie was also featured as a character in Philip Roth's counterfactual history novel, The Plot Against America, in which Willkie opposes Charles Lindbergh in the 1940 presidential election.
The Whigs, under Lord Shaftesbury's leadership, wished to exclude the Duke of York ( who later became King James II ) from the throne due to his personal character, his Catholicism, his favouring of monarchical absolutism, his connections to France and the effects of the Popish Plot.
Plot points introduced in each episode stayed in the episode and any character development did not appear to continue through to future episodes.
The film's title is a play on the 1977 Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me and contains plot elements from James Bond films, Diamonds Are Forever ( Laser Gun Plot and Cloning ), You Only Live Twice ( Secret Volcano Base ), Moonraker ( Outer Space Ventures ), The Man with the Golden Gun ( Mini Me based on character Nick Nack ) and On Her Majesty's Secret Service ( opening sequence in which Vanessa Kensington dies ).
Plot progression in Golden Sun games occur in cutscenes featuring character facial portraits next to text boxes.
* The Adventures of Superman-The Machine That Could Plot Crimes ( 1952 ) as the eccentric scientist ; also that same year, he appeared in the Superman episode " The Whistling Bird " as the same character.
The character of Senator Antonio is a reference to Shaftesbury, and the grand plot resembles the Gunpowder Plot, among others, most notably the so-called " Spanish Conspiracy " against Venice of 1618.
The alarms which culminated in the " discovery " in 1678 of the Popish Plot to murder King Charles II and replace him with James, his Roman Catholic brother, appear to have affected Russell more than his otherwise sober character would have led people to expect.
According to Keeler's 1927 series of articles on plot theory, " The Mechanics ( and Kinematics ) of Web-Work Plot Construction ," a webwork plot is typically built around a sequence in which the main character intersects at least four other strands, one after the other, and each of these encounters causes the next one.

Plot and story
* The story of Guy Fawkes and The Gunpowder Plot from the BBC, with archive video clips
The story of the Babington Plot is dramatised in the novel Conies in the Hay by Jane Lane.
Plot is a literary term defined as the events that make up a story, particularly as they relate to one another in a pattern, in a sequence, through cause and effect, how the reader views the story, or simply by coincidence.
Plot holes are usually seen as weaknesses or flaws in a story, and writers usually try to avoid them to make their stories seem as realistic as possible.
* Plot Titles, where participants are given the plot of a story and asked to write original titles.
The hall was the setting for William Harrison Ainsworth's 1842 novel Guy Fawkes, written around the plausible although unsubstantiated local story that the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was planned in the house.
Harrison Ainsworth, in his 1842 novel Guy Fawkes, wrote about the local story that the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was planned by Guy Fawkes and Robert Catesby in Ordsall Hall's Star Chamber.
Plot developments in this segment are: the father's decline following the death of his wife ; the family's relationships with the prostitutes and the radicals ; John and Franny falling in love with each other ; John's relationship with a communist who commits suicide ; Franny's sexual relationships with Susie and with the " quarterback " of the radicals, Ernst ; Lilly developing as a writer and penning the story of the family ; and the radicals ' plot to blow up the opera house, using Freud and the family as hostages, which Freud and Win foil.
Dent's " Master Fiction Plot ", often referred to as the " Lester Dent Formula " is a widely circulated guide to writing a saleable 6000-word pulp story.
Stephen King features this Edgar Wallace Plot Wheel in his short story " Dolan's Cadillac ", included in the volume Nightmares and Dreamscapes ( 1993 ), and in his book On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft ( 2000 ).
The poem is an allegory that uses the story of the rebellion of Absalom against King David as the basis for discussion of the background to the Monmouth Rebellion ( 1685 ), the Popish Plot ( 1678 ) and the Exclusion Crisis.
Plot includes the storyline, and is more ; it includes the way in which elements in the story interact to create complexity, intrigue, and surprise.
Topics addressed include the Business Plot, where in 1933, General Smedley Butler exposed an alleged corporate plot against then U. S. President Franklin Roosevelt ; the tragedy of the commons ; Dwight D. Eisenhower's warning people to beware of the rising military-industrial complex ; economic externalities ; suppression of an investigative news story about Bovine Growth Hormone on a Fox News Channel affiliate television station ; the invention of the soft drink Fanta by the Coca-Cola Company due to the trade embargo on Nazi Germany ; the alleged role of IBM in the Nazi holocaust ( see IBM and the Holocaust ); the Cochabamba protests of 2000 brought on by the privatization of Bolivia's municipal water supply by the Bechtel Corporation ; and in general themes of corporate social responsibility, the notion of limited liability, the corporation as a psychopath, and the corporation as a person.
Like most of his contemporaries he accepted the story of the Popish Plot in 1678.
In the revised 1964 edition of The Nemesis of Power, Wheeler-Bennett continued his story right up to the July 20 Plot of 1944.
The story is based on The Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
# Plot musicals: these musicals follow the story line of the manga series.

Plot and whose
In 1965 he published the controversial The Passover Plot, a book whose thesis is that the Crucifixion was part of a larger, conscious attempt by Jesus to fulfill the Messianic expectations rampant in his time, and that the plan went unexpectedly wrong.
In 1686 Plot's " Natural History of Staffordshire " contains a passage about persons of quality being admitted to the society of free-masons, whose history Plot finds invented and ridiculous.
Titus Oates ( 1649-1705 ), whose accusations in autumn 1678 that there was a Popish Plot to murder the king and massacre English Protestants, set off a wave of anti-Catholic hysteria.
Late 17th century composite engraving by John Savage ( engraver ) | John Savage, and comprising seven portraits of figures of the Plot all of whom were dead by 1685 ( Sir Thomas Armstrong, the Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll | Earl of Argyll, the Arthur Capel, 1st Earl of Essex | Earl of Essex, Henry Cornish, William Russell, Lord Russell, the James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth | Duke of Monmouth, and Algernon Sidney ), with one of Edmund Berry Godfrey, whose unexplained death triggered the Popish Plot allegations against Catholics.
Titus Oates made full use of this prejudice in the fabricated details of the Popish Plot and it was alleged that Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, whose murder was one of the great mysteries of the age, had been killed in Somerset House before his body had been smuggled out and thrown into a ditch below Primrose Hill.
Johnson was implicated by retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler in the Business Plot, an alleged political conspiracy in 1933 to overthrow United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in testimony before the McCormack-Dickstein Committee, whose deliberations began on November 20, 1934 and culminated in the Committee's report to the United States House of Representatives on February 15, 1935.
Heywood was the birthplace of Peter Heywood, the magistrate who aided the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot whose family seat was Heywood Hall.
Bedloe wrote a Narrative and impartial discovery of the horrid Popish Plot ( 1679 ), but all his statements are extremely untrustworthy. The Marchioness of Worcester, whose husband was the target of some of Bedloe's accusations called him " a man whose whole life has been a parade of villainy and whose word would not have been taken at sixpence ".
The popular credulity as to Catholic outrages in the days of the Popish Plot was stimulated by the scandalmongers of the club, whose members went about in silk armour, supposed to be bulletproof, in which any man dressed up was as safe as a house, says North, for it was impossible to strike him for laughing ; while in their pockets, for street and crowd-work, they carried the weapon of offence invented by Stephen College and known as the Protestant Flail.
In this he played Sir Francis Walsingham, head of Elizabeth's secret service, and a noted Puritan, whose work exposed the Babington Plot which led to the trial and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.
It may have been here that she met Anthony Babington, whose family lived at Dethick nearby, who organised the abortive Babington Plot, a Recusant Catholic plot against Elizabeth I.
Catesby Lane in Lapworth is named after William Catesby ( the father of Robert Catesby of Gunpowder Plot fame ), whose family had been settled at Bushwood Hall in the parish since about 1480.
As such he was a principal target of informers during the Popish Plot, in particular his former steward Stephen Dugdale whose perjured evidence sent him to the Tower of London in 1679 although he was never brought to trial, and was simply released in the summer of 1680.

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