plot element vs ingredient

plot element and ingredient both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
plot element	Yes	No	No	No
ingredient	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, ingredient is a hypernym of plot element; that is, ingredient is a word with a broader meaning than plot element:

Other hypernyms of plot element include component, constituent, element, factor.

plot element (noun)	ingredient (noun)
a component or element of the plot of a story	a component of a mixture or compound
	an abstract part of something
	food that is a component of a mixture in cooking