(I) Plot is the sequence of incidents or events of which a story is composed. (II) Most short stories will hardly have room for more than one or two developed characters. (III) When recounted by itself, it bears about the same relationship to a story that a map does to a journey. (IV) Just as a map may be drawn on a finer or grosser scale, a plot may be recounted with lesser or greater detail. (V) It may include what a character says or thinks, as well as what he does.