Nymology :: Guessanym

Guessanym: The Seven Basic Plots

plot

Depth: 4

Use as Polynym Mark as Seen ✓

Keyword: four

Context: Examples: The Wasps (Aristophanes), Aulularia (Titus Maccius Plautus), The Arbitration (Menander), A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare), Much Ado About Nothing (William Shakespeare), Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare), The Taming of the Shrew (William Shakespeare), The Alchemist (Ben Jonson), Bridget Jones's Diary (Helen Fielding), Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Big Lebowski.

Full context: Examples: The Wasps (Aristophanes), Aulularia (Titus Maccius Plautus), The Arbitration (Menander), A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare), Much Ado About Nothing (William Shakespeare), Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare), The Taming of the Shrew (William Shakespeare), The Alchemist (Ben Jonson), Bridget Jones's Diary (Helen Fielding), Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Big Lebowski.

Polynym: The Seven Basic Plots

plot

Source: Christopher Booker

Area: Storytelling

Mode: type

Depth: 7

User: scotty

Polynym: Dramatic structure

story plot

Source: Freytag

Area: Storytelling

Mode: part

Depth: 5

User: scotty

2 | affective | two | This research contrasts …
2 | air | the evolution of plants and their increasing role in carbon fixation/and the consumption of oxygen by rapidly diversifying animal faunae and also by plants for photorespiration and their own metabolic needs at night | two | Two main processes gover…
2 | air | two | Globally, clouds reflect…
3 | air | major constituents of Earth's atmosphere are nitrogen/oxygen/argon | three | The three major constitu…
4 | anagogical | The literal/historical backwards to the past/the allegoric forwards to the future/the tropological downwards to the moral/human/the anagogic upwards to the spiritual/heavenly | four | The four methods of inte…
5 | angry | five | The study suggests a num…
4 | animal | four | Since then, the last fou…
2 | archery | penetration/a large wound | both | Arrows used for hunting …
2 | archery | the bow arm/the string hand arm simultaneously especially when using bows having draw weights from 45 kg to over 80 kg | both | Traditional English Long…
3 | archery | -under aiming places the index/middle/ring fingers under the nocked arrow | three | Three-under aiming place…
2 | argument | dialectic/rhetoric arguments are used not through formal but through natural language | both | In both dialectic and rh…
2 | argument | the above argument and explanation require knowing the generalities that a fleas often cause itching/and b that one often scratches to relieve itching | both | Both the above argument …
2 | argument | both | Each premise and the con…
2 | argument | premises/a conclusion | two | A typical example is the…
2 | argument | two | From this perspective, t…
3 | argument | through the logical/the dialectical/the rhetorical perspective | three | The process of crafting …
2 | arithmetic | positive/negative whole numbers | both | The set of integers enco…
2 | arithmetic | 3/7 | pair | For example, the pair (3…
2 | arithmetic | 9/0 | pair | For instance, the pair (…
2 | arithmetic | sets one for all numbers below the represented real number/the other for the rest | two | According to this approa…
4 | artha | four | Artha (/ˈɑːrtə, -θə/; Sa…
2 | autonomous | vital aspects wherein there is an emotional component where one relies more on themselves rather than their parents/a behavioural component where one makes decisions independently by using their judgement | two | Autonomy has two vital a…
3 | autonomous | three | Kohlberg established thr…
3 | autonomous | Firstly autonomy as the right for one to make their own decisions excluding any interference from others/Secondly autonomy as the capacity to make such decisions through one's own independence of mind and after personal reflection/Thirdly as an ideal way of living life autonomously | three | Immanuel Kant (1724–1804…
4 | bacteria | When a population of bacteria first enter a high-nutrient environment that allows growth the cells need to adapt to their new environment/The first phase of growth is the lag phase a period of slow growth when the cells are adapting to the high-nutrient environment and preparing for fast growth/The second phase of growth is the logarithmic phase also known as the exponential phase/The third phase of growth is the stationary phase and is caused by depleted nutrients | four | Bacterial growth follows…
2 | biology | two | The different stages of …
4 | biology | Light absorption/electron transport/ATP synthesis/carbon fixation | four | Photosynthesis has four …
2 | birth | two | The complete delivery of…
2 | brain | by computer scientists/neuroscientists | both | The computational functi…
2 | brain | insects crustaceans arachnids/others | two | Two groups of invertebra…
2 | brain | hemispheres/controls higher functions | two | The cerebrum or telencep…
2 | brain | two | Cerebral arteries pierce…
2 | brain | components of the subpallium the striatum/pallidum | two | Beneath the pallium are …
2 | brain | neurotransmitters that are most widely found in the vertebrate brain are glutamate which almost always exerts excitatory effects on target neurons/gamma-aminobutyric acid which is almost always inhibitory | two | The two neurotransmitter…
2 | brain | non-REM/usually without dreaming | two | There are two types of s…
2 | brain | two | A key component of the s…
3 | brain | three | At the earliest stages o…
6 | brain | six | In mammals, the pallium …
10 | brain | ten | On average, a mammal has…
4 | calligraphy | Treasures of the Study – ink brushes known as máobǐ/Chinese ink/paper/inkstones – to write Chinese characters | four | Traditional East Asian w…
4 | cardinal virtue | four | While the first four dat…
4 | causal | four | Aristotle identified fou…
4 | causal | kinds/explanatory modes/only one/the 'efficient cause' is a cause as defined in the leading paragraph of this present article | four | Of Aristotle's four kind…
4 | causal | four | An early version of Aris…
2 | cause | two | And since celestial bodi…
3 | cause | three | These things are called …
4 | cause | earth/air/fire/water | four | Efficient causation was …
4 | cause | This table is solid and brown because it is made of wood/it does not collapse because it has four legs of equal length/it is as it is because a carpenter made it starting from a tree/it has these dimensions because it is to be used by humans | four | For example, if asking w…
4 | cause | four | In Physics II.3, I.7-9 a…
2 | chariotry | horses one well behaved and the other troublesome representing opposite impulses of human nature/the task of the charioteer representing reason was to stop the horses from going different ways and to guide them towards enlightenment | two | Plato, in his Chariot Al…
3 | chariotry | three | The Hittites were renown…
4 | chariotry | four | 1000 BC, depicts a biga …
4 | chariotry | the red/blue/green/white teams | four | There were four division…
4 | chariotry | four | In ancient Rome a biga d…
4 | chariotry | four | The seal depicts a line …
5 | chastity | major/minor vows of Jainism/prescribing slightly different expectations for ascetics/laypeople/respectively | five | Brahmacarya is one of th…
3 | Chemistry | states meet based on the conditions/it is known as a triple point and since this is invariant/it is a convenient way to define a set of conditions | three | When three states meet b…
4 | Chemistry | four | He formulated Boyle's la…
4 | civilization | four | Kardashev recalls that a…
5 | civilization | community and family/higher education/the effective practice of science/taxation and government/the self-regulation of the learned professions | five | Although developed in mu…
4 | clinging | four | In the Four Noble Truths…
4 | color | four | However, outside of mamm…
2 | concrete operational | both | An experimenter will hav…
2 | concrete operational | both | The girl knows what cats…
2 | concrete operational | To assimilate an object into an existing mental schema one first needs to take into account or accommodate to the particularities of this object to a certain extent/For instance to recognize assimilate an apple as an apple one must first focus accommodate on the contour of this object | two | Development increases th…
2 | concrete operational | two | Children's inability to …
4 | conscious incompetence | four | The four stages appeared…
4 | conscious incompetence | four | The model was used at Go…
2 | death | the process and the eventuality/it is hard wired and part of the 'survival instinct' of all animals | both | Death studies is a field…
2 | death | a medical/legal standpoint have made it difficult to create a single unifying definition | both | Additionally, the advent…
2 | death | two | There are two forms of a…
2 | death | two | In the United Kingdom, f…
2 | death | completely different cell types/as a consequence include the death of somatic line as a regular genetically regulated part of its life history | two | The Volvox algae are amo…
2 | death | ie/nearly nine out of ten of all deaths are related to senescence | two | Of these, two-thirds die…
3 | death | three | At that time, three clin…
4 | deluding | French psychiatry/however/also establishes a difference between "paranoid"/"paranoiac" delusion | four | Delusions are categorize…
4 | discourse position | discourses which he called Master/University/Hysteric and Analyst/and suggested that these relate dynamically to one another | four | He defined four discours…
4 | discourse position | four | Prior to the development…
4 | discourse position | four | The four discourses theo…
2 | disgusted | The first form is the denial of uniquely human traits examples include products of culture and modification/The second form is the denial of human nature examples include emotionality and personality | two | Some researchers have di…
4 | DNA | four | These guanine-rich seque…
3 | economic growth | three | By John W. Kendrick's es…
3 | Economics | factors of production/the major contributors to a nation's wealth/as distinct from the physiocratic idea that only agriculture was productive | three | The publication of Adam …
4 | ego development | levels of "interpersonal maturity and interpersonal integration" impulsive/conformist/conscientious/and autonomous | four | Sullivan (1958) proposed…
8 | ego development | eight | Loevinger proposed eight…
4 | energy | four | The esoteric traditions …
4 | equanimity | sublime attitudes/along with loving-kindness/compassion/joy | four | Here upekṣhā is consider…
2 | eukaryote | both | Eukaryotes can reproduce…
4 | evaluation | Utility/Feasibility/Propriety/Accuracy | four | The Joint Committee stan…
2 | extraversion | traits/with one being more dominant | both | While often presented as…
2 | extraversion | introverts/extraverts enrich society with examples including the introverts Isaac Newton Albert Einstein Mahatma Gandhi Dr Seuss W | both | In contrast, Cain says t…
2 | extraversion | introvert/extravert traits | both | Kaminski described otrov…
5 | extraversion | five | Goldberg (1992) develope…
2 | Falsifiablity | purposes On the methodological side/observations can show that a law is false | two | So observations have two…
2 | feedback | a qualitative/a quantitative component | both | This confusion may arise…
2 | font | both | While most of these use …
4 | fossil | four | The fossil record is lif…
4 | fraternity | social/service/professional/honorary | four | On college campuses, fra…
4 | gamer | Achievers/Explorers/Socializers/Killers | four | The taxonomy is based on…
4 | Geography | four | The Four traditions of g…
2 | geometry | dimension/three dimensions respectively | two | Length, area, and volume…
4 | geometry | four | He is credited with the …
3 | God | I think of Him as the Whole/my eyes are filled/the greater part of what I am thinking escapes me | three | When I think of any of t…
4 | grammar | types of grammars/the class of language it generates/the type of automaton that recognizes it/the form its rules must have | four | The following table summ…
4 | green | four | However, green was not c…
2 | grief | day-to-day functioning/the evolving emotional relationship with the deceased | both | One influential approach…
2 | grief | two | The two-track model of b…
4 | group development | four | In 1977, Tuckman, jointl…
4 | hands | four | The first four compartme…
4 | health | endurance/strength/flexibility/balance | four | According to the Nationa…
4 | heaven | four | Heaven ordained the four…
4 | hierarchy | four | In this system, the thre…
3 | holy spirit | three | He stated that the Holy …
4 | humors | four | In Chapters 6 and 7 of t…
4 | humors | four | The Unani school of medi…
4 | humors | four | "The egg of Amma was clo…
4 | humors | four | These four successive ph…
4 | humors | four | There are not two sexes …
4 | humors | four | Humoralism, or the doctr…
2 | idealistic | conceptually/in terms of human experience through a reorientation of thought | both | The theology of Christia…
2 | image | be figurative/literal | both | It can both be figurativ…
7 | indigo | I desired a friend to draw with a pencil lines cross the image/pillar of colours/where every one of the seven aforenamed colours was most full/brisk/also where he judged the truest confines of them to be/whilst I held the paper so/that the said image might fall within a certain compass marked on it | seven | Having decided upon seve…
2 | integrity | both | Integrity also demands k…
2 | jury | questions of fact/questions of law are decided by a judge is known as a bench trial | both | A trial without a jury (…
4 | learning | four | Kolb's model outlines tw…
2 | legal | two | John Locke, in his Two T…
2 | legal | two | The paradigm case of a c…
4 | liberation | four | The four jewels are call…
2 | life | two | The theory of spontaneou…
2 | linguistic anthropology | to/through the use of language | both | Ochs and Schieffelin dem…
2 | Logic | both | For instance, Jan Łukasi…
2 | Logic | negation elimination the principle of explosion/the bivalence of truth | double | These intuitions include…
2 | Logic | two | A prominent version by D…
3 | Logic | a subject/a predicate/a copula connecting the subject to the predicate | three | Each proposition has thr…
2 | logos | πᾰ́θος/páthos | two | The other two modes are …
4 | love | four | The Four Loves is a 1960…
4 | love | four | Lewis wrote a book calle…
4 | loyalist | four | There were in fact four …
4 | mania | four | To be classified as a ma…
4 | matter | four | Also, "exotic" baryons m…
4 | meaning of life | four | The four proper goals of…
4 | meaning of life | wish/desire/love/sensual pleasure | four | There are four possible …
2 | mental function | micro-scale studies of individual neurons/synapses as well as the macro-scale analyses of interactions between brain regions | both | It is particularly inter…
4 | metaphysical | quality/place are said of substances/depend on them | four | He argued that substance…
4 | mind | four | An influential theory by…
3 | moksha | kama/artha/dharma | three | The Vedas suggest three …
3 | moksha | waking/dream/deep sleep | three | In Vedic literature, the…
2 | mood | -dimensional circular space containing arousal/valence dimensions | two | This model suggests that…
3 | mood | three | Russell to describe and …
3 | mood | three | Dimensional models of em…
4 | mood | four | He posits four criteria …
2 | motion | both | Inside the atomic nucleu…
3 | motion | three | Newton's three laws are:…
7 | motion | seven | In 2019, the speed of li…
4 | motivation for action | four | Those pronouns called "p…
4 | motivation for action | Houses 1/2/3/4 | four | The organization of Domi…
8 | motivation for action | eight | 4. ORIGIN OF DOMINION AN…
8 | motivation for action | eight | The division of the loca…
12 | motivation for action | twelve | In addition, I have long…
4 | music | "Pitch"/"timbre" match exactly "loudness" links with dynamics/"time" links with the time-based elements of rhythm duration/tempo | four | 2). Nonetheless, these e…
2 | Natural | temperature is increasing on the average/regional climates have been undergoing noticeable changes | two | In the present day, two …
4 | noble path | Practices/The Five ranks/The Ten Ox-Herding Pictures/The Three mysterious Gates of Linji | four | There is no single domin…
4 | noble path | four | This translation is a co…
4 | noble truth | four | According to the Ekavyāv…
4 | noble truth | Noble Truths/the Eightfold Path means living happily/wisely/"without drastic changes in lifestyle" | four | In contrast, freedom in …
4 | noble truth | four | According to Gethin, the…
4 | noble truth | four | Within the Theravada tra…
4 | noble truth | four | ...the accounts which in…
4 | noble truth | truths were superseded by pratityasamutpada/and still later/in the Hinayana schools/by the doctrine of the non-existence of a substantial self or person | four | According to Schmithause…
4 | noble truth | Noble Truths reformulated/restated in modernistic terms[note 53][note 54] This "deflated secular Buddhism" stresses compassion impermanence causality selfless persons no Boddhisattvas no nirvana no rebirth/a naturalist's approach to well-being of oneself/others | four | It is devoid of rebirth,…
4 | noble truth | four | In traditional Buddhism,…
2 | occupational | statutes the word 'includes' is a term of enlargement not of limitation/and the reference to certain entities or categories is not intended to exclude all others" | both | It is obvious that withi…
4 | old age | four | Research has shown that …
4 | old age | good/medium/poor/very poor | four | Similarly, the "Berlin A…
2 | pain | important aspects of biopower/a concept that encompasses the "set of mechanisms through which the basic biological features of the human species became the object of a political strategy" | both | The deliberate inflictio…
4 | peace | horses/Harnessed with the cords of forgiveness/compassion/equanimity | four | Valour and fortitude are…
3 | perception | three | Trompe-l'œil uses realis…
4 | perception | Ambiguities/distortions/paradoxes/fictions | four | According to that, there…
2 | personality | cancer-prone patients/those prone to coronary heart disease | both | While Type A personality…
2 | personality trait | normal/abnormal personality traits" | both | In her review of the per…
2 | personality trait | most important personality dimensions were "Extraversion"/"Neuroticism" a term that he coined | two | He posited that the two …
2 | personality trait | synthesis analysis methodical study fact retention/elaborative processing | two | Two of the Big Five trai…
4 | personality trait | four | The main functions of th…
4 | personality trait | surgency/sociability/negative emotionality/persistence/effortful control/activity level | four | Models of temperament of…
2 | phase transition | whereas above the boiling point the gaseous form is the more stable | two | Below the boiling point,…
4 | phlegmatic | sanguine/choleric/melancholic/phlegmatic | four | The four temperament the…
4 | phlegmatic | four | 370 BC) described the fo…
4 | physical touch | four | The four mechanoreceptor…
4 | plot | four | Booker asserts that the …
4 | plot | four | Examples: The Wasps (Ari…
2 | poetry | verse/prose since first being recorded about 500 BCE are perhaps the richest single source of allegorical poetry through the ages | both | Aesop's Fables, repeated…
3 | pray | three | Followers of the Baháʼí …
8 | precept | eight | Furthermore, many nuns i…
2 | Psychology | both | Newer functional neuroim…
2 | Psychology | two | In one of the first psyc…
2 | Psychology | have been quite controversial/for example the Sociobiology of EO Wilson | two | Research in comparative …
2 | Psychology | designs where genetic/environmental influences can be partially un-confounded | two | Traditionally the resear…
3 | Psychology | three | In Peirce's three modes …
3 | Psychology | grades of school/school administrators may not permit educational psychologists to randomly assign children to phonics and whole language classrooms/in which case the psychologists must work with preexisting classroom assignments | three | For example, in research…
5 | Psychology | five | However, despite a pleth…
5 | Psychology | five | The APA's Ethical Princi…
8 | Psychology | eight | Raymond Cattell empirica…
3 | reading | three | Also in Ontario, 52% of …
4 | reading | four | Four of these subjects –…
4 | reading | four | For example, it is estim…
2 | recollection | different groups/one group was physically active the other group was not | two | One test selected childr…
4 | red | four | Four examples are shown …
3 | ritualistic | grades of medieval craft guilds those of "Entered Apprentice"/"Journeyman"/"Master Mason" | three | The degrees of Freemason…
4 | ritualistic | dimensions content/frequency/intensity/centrality | four | And ritual itself may be…
4 | river | four | A river beginning in the…
2 | salvation | Islam also stresses that in order to gain salvation one must avoid sin/perform good deeds | two | Belief in the "One God",…
4 | scientific | material/formal/moving/final cause | four | The approach includes Ar…
4 | sephirah | four | In the Lurianic system o…
4 | sephirah | Worlds link the Infinite with this realm/they also enable the soul to ascend in devotion/mystical states/towards the Divine | four | As the four Worlds link …
2 | sign | 1898/1903 | two | The one who did the most…
4 | sign | four | Four methods which Peirc…
4 | simple machine | types of joints the revolute joint sliding joint cam joint/gear joint/related connections such as cables/belts it is possible to understand a machine as an assembly of solid parts that connect these joints | four | Starting with four types…
2 | slandering | related concepts detraction/slander | two | The Catholic Encyclopedi…
4 | slandering | four | Although laws vary by st…
8 | slandering | eight | According to the Pew Res…
4 | socializer | Shaping gender related attributes through toys/activities differing their interaction with children based on the sex of the child serving as primary gender models/communicating gender ideals/expectations | four | Sociologists have identi…
7 | socializer | seven | In stage seven, or middl…
2 | Sociology | both | The sociological canon o…
4 | spaced practice | four | The spacing effect is pr…
4 | star sign | four | Association of the astro…
2 | star sign (mutable) | two | The relation of the sign…
3 | star sign (mutable) | three | Not all systems of astro…
4 | star sign (mutable) | four | The third factor is whic…
4 | star sign (mutable) | four | The next four signs, Leo…
4 | star sign (mutable) | four | Each modality comprehend…
6 | star sign (mutable) | Aries/Gemini/Leo/Libra/Sagittarius/Aquarius | six | Positive polarity signs,…
2 | state | the Primordial "Earlier Heaven" or "Fuxi" bagua which is so named according the legend of Fuxi being the first primordial being to identify the eight trigrams/the Manifested "Later Heaven" or "King Wen" bagua which arose recorded Chinese history | two | The bagua can appear sin…
2 | Statistics | types of studies/the effect of differences of an independent variable on the behavior of the dependent variable are observed | both | In both types of studies…
3 | story plot | three | As a result, according t…
2 | strategic | both | Hence, both gave the pre…
4 | SWOT Analysis | components into present/future/not as would later become common in SWOT analysis into internal/external | four | Stewart et al. focused o…
4 | temperament | four | In four less-ideal types…
4 | temperament | four | In the 20th century, Car…
4 | temperament | four | He classified them as ho…
4 | temperament | four | In the field of physiolo…
4 | touch | four | They are innervated by f…
2 | tradition | unnecessary/unimportant | both | There is however no "the…
2 | traffic flow | the highway/the alternative route stays the same | both | At this stage, the trave…
2 | traffic flow | two | The merge ratio will be …
2 | triadic structure | 1812 1813 1816/bkI revised 1831 | two | There are two texts of H…
3 | triadic structure | is the final part of the Logic It discusses the doctrine of "the Concept" which is concerned with reintegrating those categories of objectivity into a thoroughly idealistic account of reality[p] Simplifying greatly Being describes its concepts just as they appear Essence attempts to explain them with reference to opposites/the Concept explains/unites them both in terms of an internal teleology | three | Book three is the final …
3 | triadic structure | three | Furthermore, the final s…
3 | triadic structure | anthropology/phenomenology/psychology | three | Hegel divides his philos…
3 | triadic structure | three | These elements are "demo…
3 | triadic structure | Beiser observes that Hegel's theory is "his attempt to rehabilitate the natural law tradition while taking into account the criticisms of the historical school" He adds that "without a sound interpretation of Hegel's theory of natural law/we have very little understanding of the very foundation of his social and political thought"[u] Consistent with Beiser's position/scholar Adriaan T | three | As a first approximation…
4 | twelve-fold chain | four | The Theravāda abhidhamma…
4 | twelve-fold chain | four | Jurewicz argues that dep…
4 | unconscious competence | four | The model was used at Go…
4 | unconscious competence | four | The four stages appeared…
4 | unconscious incompetence | four | Several elements, includ…
2 | universal value | First it could be that something has a universal value when everybody finds it valuable/According to Berlin "universal valuesare values that a great many human beings in the vast majority of places and situations at almost all times do in fact hold in common whether consciously and explicitly or as expressed in their behaviour" Second something could have universal value when all people have reason to believe it has value | two | The claim for universal …
2 | US government | houses overseeing the Library of Congress printing taxation/the economy | both | The 118th Congress (2023…
2 | virtue | monks as well as laypersons include forgiveness humility self-restraint/straightforwardness | both | These vows are laid down…
4 | virtue | four | In Christian history, th…
4 | virtue | prudence/justice/temperance/courage | four | Christian scholars frequ…
2 | visual | rod opsins/cone opsins | two | In humans, two types of …
2 | Visual Perception | major ancient Greek schools/providing a primitive explanation of how vision works | two | There were two major anc…
3 | wasteful | three | The South Gippsland Wate…
4 | wind | four | Strong 300 kilometers pe…
3 | yellow | three | In color printing, yello…