society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > 			[noun]		 > plot > unfolding or course of (3)		
Form, order and arrangement (of words, etc.); course, order (of a story). Obsolete.
The denouement of a drama, novel, etc.; (also) a revelation or disclosure which brings this about. Now rare.
Progression of incidents or development of the plot in a poem or story; an instance of this. Also: the quality in a text (esp. a narrative) of being…