Thursday, 10 October 2019

EF5/6 Literary terms - conflict

TCM - traditional Chinese medicine
- herbs, roots
- acupuncture

conflict - problem,
conflict in your life
story - conflict drives the story, energy behind the story, a story needs conflict

vs - versus (prep) against

sports Manchester United vs Chelsea
Vancouver Canucks vs Ottawa Senators
Vancouver Whitecaps vs LA Galaxy

Tyson vs Ali

EXTERNAL CONFLICTS
person vs person - one person fighting someone else, argument, misunderstanding, tension
e.g. parent and child, a couple, between friends, mother-in-law (monster-in-law), siblings- brothers and sisters, two drivers (road rage)

person vs society/culture -
e.g. racism, language-writing and speaking, food, customs/rituals 

person vs nature - 
e.g. weather - storms, hurricanes, typhoon,snow, rain
natural disasters - forest fire, flooding, earthquake, volcano, tsunami, global warming
animals- bear, crow, cougar

person vs supernatural
e.g. ghosts, witches, wizards, vampires (Twilight),
zombies
Netflix - "Marianne" "The Haunting of Hill House"
podcast "Jim Harold's Campfire"
movies - "The Shining", "Ringu"

nightmare - scary dream, night mare- horse
old superstition, superstitious - hearing a horse at night is bad luck

person vs technology-
cyberbullying
internet/gaming addiction
GMO - genetically modified organism, change DNA
non-GMO



INTERNAL CONFLICT
person vs herself/himself
- you're not happy with something about your personality, yourself


Think of a conflict in your life: person vs person/culture/technology/supernatural/herselfhimself.
Describe the conflict in a paragraph.

What kind of conflict is it?
Describe it, write about it.












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