Agathon introduced certain innovations into the Greek theater: Aristotle tells us in the Poetics that the characters and plot of his Anthos were original and not, following Athenian dramatic orthodoxy, borrowed from mythological subjects.

Soon realizing Frank also has money, Scarlett hatches a plot and tells Frank that Suellen has changed her mind about marrying him.

It tells about Hell, Christ's Passion and Paradise ; this plot suggests Dante in his Comedia.

One version of the story tells of Heraclianus bringing Claudius into the plot while the account given by Historia Augusta exculpates the would-be emperor and adds the prominent general Marcianus into the plot.

Pinkerton's role in foiling the assassination plot against Abraham Lincoln was dramatized in the 2012 film Saving Lincoln, which tells President Lincoln's story through the eyes of Ward Hill Lamon, a former law partner of Lincoln who also served as his primary bodyguard during the Civil War.

In a conversation with Miranda, one character tells her that the nation-states of the world collapsed when electronic communications started using an untraceable relay system that made it impossible to enforce taxes on online transactions ( which was later used as a plot element in another of Stephenson's works, the 1999 novel Cryptonomicon ).

Venus ( Leila Hyams ), another circus performer, overhears Cleopatra and Hercules discussing the murder plot and tells Hans and the other freaks.

The two greet one another and Hedinn tells her that he has completed the plot.

The plot thus skips over the topics of the pilot ; the bulk of the episode tells of Gilligan and the Skipper setting off on a raft to try to bring help but unknowingly landing back on the other side of the same island.

In a plot very similar to that of " Time ", " The Mind and the Matter " tells of a man who uses his mind to erase humanity, only to find that existence without other people is unbearable.

Vincent tells Michael that he has learned from Altobello of Mosca's plot on his life.

The third plot strand tells the story of Reverend Gail Hightower.

" He tells her Mussburger's plot and she takes the story back to her Chief, but he does not believe a word of it.

It tells the story of a woman who overhears a plot for murder.

The main plot tells the misadventures of Destin's acting company and presents us with an intrusive narrator who disappears when some of the characters tell their life stories such as Destin, La Caverne and La Garouffiere.

The plot tells the story of a feud between two affluent families, the long-established ( upper class ) Hillcrists, played by C. V. France, Helen Haye, and Jill Esmond, and the nouveau riche ( formerly working class ) Hornblowers, played by Edmund Gwenn, John Longden, and Frank Lawton.

* Some episodes of the later series from the fictional Star Trek universe use the holodeck ( or its Ferengi equivalent, a " holosuite ") to tell a " story-within-a-story ", while the Deep Space Nine episode Far Beyond the Stars tells a similar story without such a high-tech plot device, as basically a work of metafiction, using the DS9 regular characters to tell a mid-20th century story, set in a science fiction publishing house in New York City.

Drawing on de Borchgrave's experience as a jet-setting Newsweek journalist and conservative Washington insider, it tells the story of a radical ' 60s journalist, Bob Hockney, who stumbles upon a Soviet plot for global supremacy by 1985.

To the Grand Maester Pycelle, he tells of a plot to marry his niece, Princess Myrcella, to Prince Trystane of the powerful House Martell, from Dorne.

The Muslims plot to detain the Portuguese until the annual trading fleet from Mecca can arrive to attack them, but Monsayeed tells da Gama of the conspiracy, and the ships escape from Calicut.

It tells how the dauntless pair foils a plot to foment labour unrest and red revolution in Britain, masterminded by the man behind the Bolshevists.

* Disney's The Great Mouse Detective: Ratigan ties up Basil and Dawson in an intricate mousetrap and tells them about his plot to kill the queen.

Wesker's play The Merchant ( a play which he also called " Shylock ") tells the plot of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice from Shylock's point of view.

As with any good narrative, the story of Jonah has a setting, characters, a plot, and themes.

A. E. van Vogt used the idea as a plot device in his story " M33 in Andromeda " ( 1943 ), which was later combined with the three other Space Beagle stories to became the novel, The Voyage of the Space Beagle.

Suspense is generated through multiple plot twists that occur as the story progresses.

Most releases that contain the label " director's cut " or " extended edition " include minor changes and / or scene additions not seen in a film's theatrical release, but that do not tend to greatly affect or change the plot, story or overall product.

The plot of the story was the same as his earlier story Lost in ( an alternative section of ) the Andes.

* Avi used this style of constructing a story in Nothing But the Truth ( 1991 ), where the plot is told using only documents, letters, and scripts.

) This plot point was also used in a Sherlock Holmes story based on the Basil Rathbone era, where a friend of Dr. Watson's is a baronet who is due to receive his inheritance on the New Year's Day of the year where his twenty-first birthday will be celebrated, only for the law to deprive him of the money as he was born on February 29 ; with the 84-year-old Baronet distraught at the news that 1900 is not a leap year, Holmes helps the Baronet fake his death long enough for his grandson-who is the appropriate age to receive the inheritance-to establish his claim and receive the money himself.

" Mike Bogue of American Kaiju said the film " not liv up to its potential ," but added that " colorful and elaborate spectacle eventually won me over " and " the main story thread dealing with the eventual reconciliation of the divorced couple adequately holds the human plot together.

* Author: The GM plans out ( in the loosest sense ) the plot of the story of which the Player Characters will become heroes ( or villains, or rich, or whatever ); creating ( or adapting, or just choosing ) the setting, populating that region with villains and other NPCs, and assigning them any necessary backgrounds, motivations, plans and resources.

* In his short story The Harbor Master, by Robert W. Chambers, the discovery and attempted recovery of the last known pair of Great Auks is central to the plot ( which also involves a proto-Lovecraftian element of suspense ).

Besides using Gothic architecture as a setting, with the aim of eliciting certain associations from the reader, there was an equally close association between the use of Gothic architecture and the storylines of Gothic novels, with the architecture often serving as a mirror for the characters and the plot lines of the story.

Subsequent attempts to prove Salisbury's involvement, such as Francis Edwards's 1969 work Guy Fawkes: the real story of the gunpowder plot ?, have similarly foundered on the lack of any clear evidence.

Wanting to capitalize on the countries aviation craze, Fox immediately bought Hawks's original story for The Air Circus, a variation of the male friendship plot of A Girl in Every Port about two young pilots.

In this respect the plot is identical to Salinger's previous but unpublished story " The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls ," written some two decades earlier.

The plot of the story often depicts the hero's fight against the evil forces as a Bildungsroman.

The plot of the now famous movie, Hoosiers, was based on the story of the 1954 Milan team and seems to typify the hysteria related to basketball in the state of Indiana.

The visual spectacle is given more attention than the dialogue and underlying story, though the main points of the plot are covered.

The K-metal in the story was a piece of Krypton which robbed Superman of his strength while giving humans superhuman powers, a plot point which decades later made its way into the TV series Smallville.

The hoax story is disputed by Henry Bauer, who claims this debunking is evidence of bias, and asks why the perpetrators did not reveal their plot earlier to embarrass the newspaper.

* The short story " There is a Tide " begins by speaking of a metaphorical tide of fate which guides one's destiny, but the existence of literal tides on a planet in the story is a key to the plot.

The two timelines were implicitly joined by Niven in the story A Relic of the Empire, in which the background elements of the Slaver civilization ( introduced in World of Ptavvs, from the Belter series ) was used as a plot element of a story in the faster-than-light setting.

It was written for anyone who loves gripping fiction featuring believable characters, a dynamic plot that also weaves prophetic events in a fascinating story.