a The action line in this story follows the customary course of well-constructed plots Plot It is a particular arrangement of happenings in a novel that is aimed at revealing their causal relaionships or at conveying the novelists ideas A plot is sometimes called a story line The action line in this story follows the customary course of well-constructed plots. Plot: It is a particular arrangement of happenings in a novel that is aimed at revealing their causal relaionships or at conveying the novelist’s ideas. A plot is sometimes called a story line