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How to Read: Plot
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Plot—revelation

What do you know . . . and when do you know it? That depends on revelation.

Writers decide how much information they want to reveal to readers and when they want to reveal it. They use 4 techniques to tell us—or hold back from us—facts about characters and events:

Exposition
Flashbacks
Foreshadowing
Suspended revelation