contrived plot
1Plot device — A plot device is an element introduced into a story solely to advance or resolve the plot of the story. In the hands of a skilled writer, the reader or viewer will not notice that the device is a construction of the author; it will seem to follow …
2contrived — adjective Date: 15th century artificial, labored < a contrived plot > …
3plot — I n. conspiracy 1) to devise, hatch; weave a plot 2) to foil, thwart a plot 3) to expose a plot 4) a cunning, diabolic; sinister plot 5) a plot against 6) a plot to + inf. (to expose a plot to overthrow the government) story 7) to build,… …
4contrived — [[t]kəntra͟ɪvd[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED (disapproval) If you say that something someone says or does is contrived, you think it is false and deliberate, rather than natural and not planned. There was nothing contrived or calculated about what he said …
5Contrived — Contrive Con*trive (k[o^]n*tr[imac]v ), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Contrived}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Contriving}.] [OE. contriven, contreven, controven, to invent, OF. controver, contruver; con + trouver to find. See {Troubadour}, {trover}.] To form by an… …
6contrived — I (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) a. [kun TRIVED] overly planned or designed, with a forced or unnatural effect. The unlikely coincidences in the plot made the story seem contrived. SYN.: forced, unnatural, unspontaneous, labored,… …
7contrived — con|trived [kənˈtraıvd] adj seeming false and not natural ▪ The characters are as contrived as the plot …
8contrived — adj. planned so carefully as to seem unnatural; artificial, forced (the plot seemed contrived) …
9Popish Plot — The execution of the five Jesuits The Popish Plot was a fictitious conspiracy concocted by Titus Oates that gripped England, Wales and Scotland in Anti Catholic hysteria between 1678 and 1681.[1] Oates alleged that there existed an extens …
10Oates's Plot — • A Popish Plot which, during the reign of Charles II of England, Titus Oates pretended to have discovered. Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Oates s Plot Oates s Plot …
