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The word “novel” comes from the Italian, Novella, which means the new staff that small. The novel was originally developed in the region from other
forms or narrative nonfiction, such as letters, biographies, and history. But with a shift in society and development time, the novel is not only based on data
nonfiction, author of novel can change according to the desired imagination. From the statement, Novel, that gives you imaginative, is a fictional long
prose work that adopted from french and Italy to describe about the element prose.
2.2 Plot
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. A plot insures that you get your character from point A to point Z. Plot according to
Roberts and Jacobs in their book literature 1995;88 said that plot is all the actions or incidents, speeches, thoughts, and observations are linked together to
make up an entirety, sometimes called an organic unity. The essence of this unity is the development and resolution of a conflict in hich protagonist, or central
character. The plot is interactions of causes and effects as they develop sequentially or chronologically. Plot is stories are made up mostly of actions or
incidents that follow each other sequentially. Finding a sequential or narrative order, however, is only the first step toward the more important consideration.
The plot is the controls governing the development of the actions. In a well- plotted story , things precede or follow each other not simply because time ticks
away, but more importantly because effects follow causes.
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Plot is known as the foundation of a novel or story which the characters and settings are built around. It is meant to organize information and events in a
logical manner. When writing the plot of a piece of literature, the author has to be careful that it does not dominate the other parts of the story.
There are five main elements in a plot. The first is the exposition or the introduction. This is known as the beginning of the story where characters and
setting are established. The conflict or main problem is introduced as well. The second element of a plot is known as the rising action which occurs when a series
of events build up to the conflict. The main characters are established by the time the rising action of a plot occurs and at the same time, events begin to get
complicated. It is during this part of a story that excitement, tension or crisis is encountered. The third element of a plot is known as the climax or the main point
of the plot. This is the turning point of the story and is meant to be the moment of highest interest and emotion. The reader wonders what is going to happen next.
The fourth element of a plot is known as falling action or the winding up of the story. Events and complications begin to resolve and the result of actions of the
main characters are put forward. The last element of a plot is the resolution or the conclusion. It is the end of a story and ends with either a happy or a tragic ending.
From the above statement, plot is the parts that the conflict raising is climax in a story, but this paper explained that the plot has mixed time. The novel
story in future time , then flashback and repeat again until finally the plot finished in climax.
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2.3 Character
