B plot

noun

The secondary plot of a piece of literature, television, etc., contrasted with the primary A plot.

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Meanings

nounB plot (plural B plots)

plural B plots

  1. The secondary plot of a piece of literature, television, etc., contrasted with the primary A plot.

    Shows have an A plot and a subsidiary, or B plot...

    2001, Robert Keith Sawyer, Creating Conversations: Improvisation in Everyday Discourse
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    The primary function of the A plot is to initiate the first movement and complication in the B plot and eventually absorb the B plot once it is resolved.

    1966, Blaze Odell Bonazza, Shakespeare's Early Comedies: A Structural Analysis
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