Plot and Structure

In this section, we will help you identify the elements of the plot and how “Singer of Songs” is structured. By plot, we understand a literary term used to describe the events that make up a story, and how these events relate to each other in a pattern or a sequence. In literary works, there are at least a dozen types of plot. Consequently, not all plots develop along the five classical elements, which are the exposition, the rising action, the climax, the falling action and the resolution.Elements of the plot

This is how the plot is structured in our case:

Exposition

Mac meets his friend Gordon, who has come to visit from Africa. “Gordon was back from Africa after another year in the bush and we met in a pub, as usual”. (l. 1)

Rising action

 In the pub, the two men share memories and experienc...