5 Kinds of Conflict

What is conflict in a literary selection?

• the setting

• the main character/protagonist

• a struggle or problem that needs to be solved in the plot

• the climax of the plot

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What is the main role of conflict in a story?

• It keeps the plot moving and evolving.

• It creates the mood/tone in a story.

• It completes the resolution of a story.

• Conflict gives personality to the protagonist.

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What is the purpose of the antagonist?

• To tell the reader where and when the story takes place.

• To challenge the protagonist

• To directly described characters to the reader.

• The antagonist has no purpose.

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What is internal conflict?

• This is when the character is inside a dwelling.

• This is the kind of conflict when characters are having problems with each other in a passage.

• This is when a character is battling against an unfair government.

• This is when a character, usually the protagonist, is trying to make a decision or judgement.

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Which of the following is an example of internal conflict?

• The young farmer in The Wise, Old Woman made a decision not to leave his mother in the mountains to die.

• In the story, The Wretched Stone, the captain was locked out of the forward hold by his men.

• In the story, Moving Day, Kelli was angry about having to move to Colorado.

• When the cruel young lord declared that everyone 70 and older had to be taken into the mountains to die.

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All of the following are types of conflict in a story except...

• man vs. man

• character vs. fate

• person vs. society

• character vs. reader

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Character vs. nature is when the protagonist is battling

• himself.

• discrimination.

• the antagonist.

• wild animals or storms.

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When a character goes against culture, government or morals/rules in society it is called

• person vs. person

• character vs. self

• man vs. fate

• character vs. society

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A story can have only one conflict.

• True

• False

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Read the following summary and decide the kind of conflict.

Camilla really loves lima beans, but when she eats them the other children make fun of her. She broke out in stripes because she tried not to eat them so that she could fit in with what the other children liked. Camilla finally decided to be true to herself and eat lima beans no matter what others might think or say. She learned that what others thought was not the most important thing to her.

• character vs. character

• character vs. self

• character vs. nature

• character vs. society