emplot

Etymology

From em- + plot.

emplot means To place an event in the context of a plot or story-line to make a narrative. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 76 out of 100.

Why this word is great

EMPLOT — [Verb] To organize or structure events into a coherent plot or narrative sequence. From the English prefix em- (a form of en-, meaning "to put into or onto") + plot (meaning "the plan or main story of a literary work"). Unlike "narrate," which concerns the act of telling, or "chronicle," which implies a passive, sequential record, to emplot is to actively impose an interpretive architecture, forging causality from the raw ore of incident. It is the historian selecting which battle signifies a turning point, the mourner structuring memory into a story of a life, or the survivor shaping the chaos of recollection into a fragile, explanatory mosaic. We do not live in plots, but we cannot bear to remember without them.

verb

To place an event in the context of a plot or story-line to make a narrative.“One thing is, however, certain: Through the early rudimentary translations from the Sanskrit, India was emplotted by the West. By this I mean that incomplete projections from a variety of sources were given a voice defined through narrative, and received the authority of signification.”