B plot

The secondary plot of a piece of literature, television, etc., contrasted with the primary A plot.

Noun

  1. The secondary plot of a piece of literature, television, etc., contrasted with the primary A plot.
    • The primary function of the A plot is to initiate the first movement and complication in the B plot and eventually absorb the B plot once it is resolved. - 1966, Blaze Odell Bonazza, Shakespeare's Early Comedies: A...
    • Shows have an A plot and a subsidiary, or B plot... - 2001, Robert Keith Sawyer, Creating Conversations: Improvisation in Everyday Discourse:

Forms

B plots