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  2. Conflict (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally, conflict is a major element of narrative or dramatic structure that creates challenges in a story by adding uncertainty as to whether the goal will be achieved. In works of narrative , conflict is the challenge main characters need to solve to achieve their goals .

  3. The monkey and the coconuts - Wikipedia

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    The problem became notorious when American novelist and short story writer Ben Ames Williams modified an older problem and included it in a story, "Coconuts", in the October 9, 1926, issue of the Saturday Evening Post. [2] Here is how the problem was stated by Williams [3] (condensed and paraphrased): Five men and a monkey were shipwrecked on ...

  4. The Final Problem - Wikipedia

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    "The Final Problem" is a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring his detective character Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom, and McClure's in the United States, under the title "The Adventure of the Final Problem" in December 1893.

  5. Three-act structure - Wikipedia

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    The three-act structure is a model used in narrative fiction that divides a story into three parts , often called the Setup, the Confrontation, and the Resolution. It has been described in different ways by Aelius Donatus in the fourth century A.D. and by Syd Field in his 1979 book Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting .

  6. Word problem (mathematics education) - Wikipedia

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    Word problem from the Līlāvatī (12th century), with its English translation and solution. In science education, a word problem is a mathematical exercise (such as in a textbook, worksheet, or exam) where significant background information on the problem is presented in ordinary language rather than in mathematical notation.

  7. Shakespearean problem play - Wikipedia

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    Another scholarly analysis of Shakespeare's problem-plays by A.G. Harmon argues that what the problem-plays have in common is how each consciously debates the relationship between law and nature. Many of the problem-plays address a disorder in nature, and the characters attempt to mitigate the disorder in varying manners. [4]

  8. The Problem of Thor Bridge - Wikipedia

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    "The Problem of Thor Bridge" was published in the UK in The Strand Magazine in two parts in February and March 1922, and in the US in Hearst's International in the same months. [6] The story was published with seven illustrations by A. Gilbert in the Strand, [7] and with six illustrations by G. Patrick Nelson in Hearst's International. [8]

  9. Problems (short story) - Wikipedia

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    "Problems" is a work of short fiction by John Updike first appearing in The New Yorker on November 3, 1975. The story was collected in Problems and Other Stories (1979) published by Alfred A. Knopf .