Vernacular: archplot

ARCHPLOTS have causality, closed endings, linear time, external conflict, consistent reality, and a single, active protagonist.

Most human beings believe that life brings closed experiences of absolute, irreversible change; that their greatest sources of conflict are external to themselves, that they are the single and active protagonists of their own existence; that their existence operates through continuous time within a consistent, causally interconnected reality; and that inside this reality, events happen for explainable and meaningful reasons.

[Robert McKee--STORY]