Have a look at some of your favorite novels, short stories, and even movies, and try to see if their plots fit with the seven different plot types. part of learning how to be a good writer is in learning to assess your own work and the work of others, so decide how successful you think their plots are. write down exactly what you thought was successful about them, and what was unsuccessful. assess how important the plot was to the story as a whole. answer in around 200 words.

Read this adapted excerpt from a famous poem by john keats. this poem is about a beautiful vase with intricate shapes and patterns. you, silent form, do tease us out of thought as does etemity: cold pastorall when old age shall this generation waste, you shall remain in the middle of other woe than ours, a friend to man, to whom you say "beauty is truth, truth beauty that is all you know on earth, and all you need to know what is the poet saying when he writes that "old age shall this generation waste"? the poet is expressing his dread of growing older the poet is mourning the changes he sees in his "generation." the poet is saying that beauty is illusionary and short-lived. the poet is saying that people don't live long; life is brief