To add to or supplement a plot; to amplify or extend a narrative in literature.
From prefix 'e-' (out, forth) + 'plot'. A rare literary term combining the causative prefix with 'plot' to suggest the act of developing or expanding dramatic structure.
This obscure literary verb shows how writers in the 17th and 18th centuries tried to coin terms for the craft of storytelling itself—'eplot' is a forgotten word for what modern screenwriters call 'plotting' or 'narrative development.'
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