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  2. Conflict (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    "Man against nature" conflict is an external struggle positioning the character against an animal or a force of nature, such as a storm or tornado or snow. [ 7 ] [ 9 ] The "man against nature" conflict is central to Ernest Hemingway 's The Old Man and the Sea , where the protagonist contends against a marlin . [ 14 ]

  3. Violence in literature - Wikipedia

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    Shootings, stabbings, and poisonings are few examples of how such character versus other violence – rising from an underlying conflict with the self – can manifest. [ 28 ] [ 1 ] Though character versus nature conflicts tend to present humans as the victims of natural disasters, a variety of dystopian works portrays them as the aggressors in ...

  4. Character displacement - Wikipedia

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    Brown and Wilson used the term character displacement to refer to instances of both reproductive character displacement, or reinforcement of reproductive barriers, and ecological character displacement driven by competition. [1] As the term character displacement is commonly used, it generally refers to morphological differences due to competition.

  5. Nature fakers controversy - Wikipedia

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    Illustration from William J. Long's School of the Woods (1902), showing an otter teaching her young to swim. The nature fakers controversy was an early 20th-century American literary debate highlighting the conflict between science and sentiment in popular nature writing.

  6. Internal conflict - Wikipedia

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    In narrative, an internal conflict is the struggle occurring within a character's mind. Things such as what the character yearns for, but can't quite reach. As opposed to external conflict, in which a character is grappling some force outside of themself, such as wars or a chain-breaking off a bike, or not being able to get past a roadblock.

  7. Ad hominem - Wikipedia

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    Ad hominem (Latin for 'to the person'), short for argumentum ad hominem, refers to several types of arguments that are usually fallacious.Often currently this term refers to a rhetorical strategy where the speaker attacks the character, motive, or some other attribute of the person making an argument rather than the substance of the argument itself.

  8. Conflict (process) - Wikipedia

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    Areas in which conflicts frequently occur are, for example, in the family, between parents, between siblings or between parents and children, among friends and acquaintances, in groups, in school, in nature, in business between companies, employers or employees, [22] in science, [23] between generations (generational conflict), between ethnic ...

  9. The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia

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    Example: Clytemnestra, Aegisthus, Double Indemnity; Madness. a Madman; a Victim; The Madman goes insane and wrongs the Victim. Example: The Shining (novel) Fatal imprudence. the Imprudent; a Victim or an Object Lost; The Imprudent, by neglect or ignorance, loses the Object Lost or wrongs the Victim. Example: Kris Kelvin and his wife in Solaris ...