Plot Conflicts

What is a conflict in a story?

• a struggle between two opposing forces usually the protagonist and the antagonist
  

• A series of events that complicates matters for your characters, and results in increased drama or suspense

• story is in chronological order and does not skew from that order.
  

• The beginning that introduces the characters and setting. 

Where does the drama and suspense begin to build in a linear plot story?

• The resolution

• The climax

• The rising action

• The falling action 

What is the rising action?

• The introduction/beginning

• Events that lead to a resolution

• Series of mini-conflicts that become more intense

• The turning point of the story; emotional high point

What is the conflict in a story?

• Turning point of the story; emotional high point

• Series of related events that make up a story

• The time and place where the action occurs

• Struggle between opposing forces within the plot

characters' internal and external struggles

• problem

• events

• play

• conflicts

character struggling with the outside force, another character, or nature

• Internal conflict

• Solution

• External conflict

• Exemplary

struggling with own feelings or beliefs

• External conflict

• problem

• solution

• Internal conflict

the sequence of events

• scene

• play

• plot

• incidents

What is the main type of conflict in a story where a character faces a moral dilemma?

• A) External conflict

• B) Internal conflict

• C) Man vs. Nature

• D) Man vs. Society

In a story, which type of conflict involves a character struggling against societal norms?

• A) Man vs. Self

• B) Man vs. Man

• C) Man vs. Society

• D) Man vs. Technology