Plot is a literary term defined as the events that make up a story, particularly as they relate to one another in a pattern, in a sequence, through cause and effect, how the reader views the story, or simply by coincidence. One is generally interested in how well this pattern of events accomplishes some artistic or emotional effect. An intricate, complicated plot is called an imbroglio, but even the simplest statements of plot may include multiple inferences, as in traditional ballads.
In other words, a plot is a summary of a story, and composed of causal events, which means a series of sentences linked by "and so." For instance, "the Princess runs after the Queen, so finds the Queen" is a plot. Whereas a story orders events from A to Z in time. Thus, "the Princess runs after the Queen, then the Queen conjures up an ice palace" is a story. A plot highlights all the important points and the line of a story, and therefore provides a more complete picture of how a fleshed-out story works by a logical skeleton. Consequently, it also has the same meaning as Storyline