plot element

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   a component or element of the plot of a story

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Questions about plot element

What does plot element mean?

plot element means "a component or element of the plot of a story".

Is plot element a common word?

plot element is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.