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| conflict | a struggle between two opposing forces or characters |
| inciting incident | It puts the plot events of the story into motion and introduces the reader to the conflict |
| internal conflict | a struggle within a character |
| external conflict | a struggle outside of a character |
| man vs. self conflict | an internal struggle between a character and his feelings, conscience, and emotions. |
| man vs. man | an external struggle between two characters. |
| man vs. nature | an external struggle between a character and nature (illness, epidemic, animals, weather, ot insects) |
| man vs. society | an exgernal struggle between a character and the values and beliefs of a group of people (politics, religion, poverty, injustice ,social norms, or values) |
| rising action | the series of conflicts or struggles that build a story to the climax |
| climax | the turning point or most exciting moment of the story because the full conflict is revealed |
| falling action | events after the climax, leading to the resolution |
| resolution | end of the story, where loose ends are tied up the the problem is solved |
| protagonist | main character of the story |
| antagonist | a character or force in conflict with the main character |
| setting | refers to the time and place which the events of a story take place |
| exposition | introduces the characters, setting, and the opening situations of a story including the confict |
| characters | a person in the story |
| plot | sequence of events in a story |
