Action and Subplot

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Action noun - The unfolding of events in a dramatic or literary work.

Usage example: the mystery writer displays a sure hand in managing the novel's complicated but never incoherent action

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Subplot and action are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Subplot" instead a noun "Action".

Nearby Words: active, activity, acting, acted, actively

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Action and subplot are semantically related. You can use "Action" instead a noun "Subplot".

One episode has a whole subplot about Howard buying a 3D printer with his wife's money and using it to make action figurines.

Source: Mundane Utility / Live-Action TV
The Not-Love Interest: The Heavy and Medic subplot is described as "romance action" in one of the update blurbs, before clarifying that it's more like "bro-mance action".

Source: Supplemental Material / Team Fortress 2
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) has the whole subplot on the farm as one big quiet drama scene in an action film.

Source: Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene

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