Basic Plots of the Essay Plot 1: The Review • The review begins with the work of others and develops a set of ideas and narratives that depart from that work. • Example: Woolf, “The Modern Essay” Plot 2: The Ramble/A Walk through the Mind • The ramble begins with a bit of personal experience and develops a set of ideas and narratives that depart from that experience. • Example: Chris Wright, “I, Possum”; anything by Montaigne. Plot 3: The Meditation • The meditation begins with an abstract idea or metaphor and relates it to personal experience, other texts, and concrete objects. • Example: E. B. White, “The Essayist and the Essay”. Plot 4: The List • The list begins with a series of objects, stories, or ideas and unifies them through some persistent idea or pattern. • Example: Sei Shonagon, “Hateful Things”.

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