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Any notes about the given ISBN (e.g. hardcover) — short_summary: If possible, keep summaries under three or four sentences — line_color: The separator line between entries, predefined values exist for: novel, shortstory, poetry, play, screenplay, nonfiction, unpublished — books — Usages of {}
A plot summary is not a recap. It should not cover every scene or every moment of a story. A summary is not meant to reproduce the experience of reading or watching the work. In fact, readers might be here because they didn't understand the original. Just repeating what they have already seen or read is unlikely to help them.
An article about a novel should include a concise plot summary which highlights the most important events and developments without attempting to follow every twist and turn of the story. A plot summary should be written in the narrative present tense. A summary for a full-length novel should be between 400 and 700 words.
The plot summary for a work, on a page about that work, does not need to be sourced with inline citations, as it is generally assumed that the work itself is the primary source for the plot summary. However, if the summary includes a direct quote from the work, this must be cited using inline citations so that readers can easily verify it ...
To make use of this template, please proceed as follows: copy and paste the entire contents of the box below to your new article page; work your way through the article replacing fields between pairs of ~~ (tildes) with new information appropriate to the novel being discussed (erasing the tildes in the process)
A plot summary is a retelling, a summary, or an abridged or shortened précis of the events that occur within a work of fiction. The purpose of a plot summary is to help the reader understand the important events within a work of fiction, be they of the work as a whole or of an individual character.
Summary (Optional) Values: any A summary of the volume. Occupies an entire row. LineColor (Optional) Values: a hex color value of the form "RGB" or "RRGGBB" In a table containing a chapter list and/or a summary, three-pixel colored borders are added to the bottoms of individual volume releases to separate them; this determines the color of the ...
At any particular point of the story, as it unfolds, there is a now, and hence a past and a future, so whether some event mentioned in the story is past, present, or, future changes as the story progresses; the entire description is presented as if the story's now is a continuous present. —Frungi 05:09, 14 March 2013 (UTC)